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Upper Tunga will be brought under AIBP: Bommai

Basavaraj Bommai

HUBLI: Minister for Water Resources Basavaraj Bommai has said that the State Government is contemplating bringing the Upper Tunga Project under the Union Government’s Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) for facilitating the early implementation of the scheme.

Speaking to presspersons in Haveri on Saturday after Teachers’ Day celebrations, the Minister said that immediately after the Assembly session, he would meet the Union Water Resource Minister and the officials concerned in Delhi to prevail upon them to take up the UTP under the AIBP. Already Ghataprabha and Malaprabha projects have been included under the project. The objective was to take up the project under AIBP and complete it by 2012, he said.

Mr. Bommai said that the first phase of work on the Upper Tunga Project had been completed and water had been released on a trial basis. Soon after the Assembly session the Chief Minister, would formally inaugurate the Gajanur Reservoir and the release of water under the UTP first phase, he said.

The Minister said that the works under the UTP on canals and sub-canals had been completed up to 156-km-mark and once water was released in the first phase, 50,000 acres of farmland would be brought under irrigation.

He said that since work on some of the sub-canals had been completed long ago, silt had accumulated in them and the officials had been directed to take up work to remove the silt work under the NREGS, involving the farmers.

Mr. Bommai said that the department had decided to take works worth Rs. 1,000 crore under the NREGS and already works worth Rs. 150 crores were under implementation.

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