Water Resources, Public Relations and legislative Affairs Minister Narottam Mishra, has deliberations with the officials of the water resources Department as regard to the main irrigation schemes of the State, here on Monday.
Keeping in account the rainfall in the State, he directed the officials to keep an eye over the water level of dams, ponds and rivers. Further, he also obtained information about district wise irrigation area. He also directed the officials to complete the ongoing irrigation schemes at the earliest.
He gave instructions to the officials to increase the irrigation area as per the need of the farmers.
He also obtained information regarding irrigation area for Kharif and Rabi crops, Departments manpower, status of main dams, annual work plan, Ken-Betwa link project, small irrigation projects, plan expenditure etc.
Besides this, he also sought information of revenue recovery. It has been informed in the meeting that success has been achieved in revenue recovery during the last year.
Also, concrete efforts have been made to recover the revenue of `500 crore from the industrial area, recovery from urban bodies for supply of drinking water, electricity distribution company, NTPC, power plants, agricultural use and other means.
Mishra instructed the officials to give priority to do the continue work of the Department in favour of farmers besides expansion of the irrigation area.
He also emphasised to give pace to the cases of land acquisition at district level. Further, it has been informed in the meeting that the target to increase 1.30 lakh hectare has been set up in the annual work plan 2016-2017 and a capacity of new 66,703 hectare irrigation area has been developed till June 2016.
The Chief Engineer MG Choubey, the Project Director of the World Bank Nandkumaram and other officials were present in the meeting.