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Desilting campaign from next month
LAHORE--Punjab Cabinet which met on Dec 24, 2001 under the
chairmanship of the Provincial
Governor Lt.General (retd) Khalid Maqbool gave green signal
for the 20-day province-wide
desilting campaign from next month.
Briefing the newsmen after the meeting, the Provincial
Irrigation Secretary Javed Majeed said the
canals throughout the province would remain closed from
December 26 after which the campaign
would get underway. During the campaign,he said 537 channels
would be cleaned while 2538 miles of
irrigation channels and distributaries would be desilted while
768,000 cubic feet of earth is
expected to be removed from these waterways.
Javed Majeed said the campaign would involve 21000 farmers,six
thousand trucks and twenty
bulldozers. The whole campaign,he said,is expected to cost the
Provincial exchequer Rs.200
million.
The Irrigation Secretary said desilting campaign began from
1992 and is now being organised on
regular basis to ensure the water reach the tail ends of the
waterways to facilitate farmers
irrigate their lands.
He said the country had been facing water shortage for the
past three years but through judicious
management of water resources,it has been able to overcome the
shortage. This time,he
added,Punjab face shortage upto the tune of 51% this year but
expressed hope that through the
same regime it would be able to surmount the problem and
provide much needed water right upto the
tail ends.
Javed Majeed said unlike last time,Army would not be involved
in the exercise this year but would
monitor the performance. Desilting Committee, he said, are
being constituted under the
superivision of District and Tehsil Nazims.
The Provincial Information Secretary Kamran Lashari who was
also present at the breifing said the
Cabinet appreciated the role extended by Pakistan Army during
the last year's desilting campaign.
January 2, 2002
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