Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president and MP Nandkumar Singh Chouhan has claimed that a historic irrigation revolution has taken place in Madhya Pradesh during the eleven years rule of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Chouhan while addressing farmer’s convention at Bishthan on Thursday said that in continuation of the irrigation revolution in the state Bhumipujan of mega water lifting project Narmada River would be held at Bishthan under Bagwanpura in Khargone district. The project would benefit 105 villages of that’s 55 thousand hectare of land would start yielding gold. The local people would reach at the Bhumipujan site by their tractors and a fare of multiplicity and abundance of state would be held, he added.
Chouhan further said that during the past eleven years irrigation sector has registered unexpected rise in the state.
The irrigation land in the state before 2003 was 7.5 lakh hectare but during the last eleven years it has rose to 40 lakh hectare and the state has emregd as the number one agriculture state of the country.
The agriculture growth rate of the state is 20 per cent since last four years and the state has been rewarded four times with the prestigious agriculture of the central government during the past four years.
The credit of this goes to the farmers besides the encouragement of Shivraj Singh Chouhan government has also been very remarkable, he added. The senior BJP MP said that the BJP is the party of village, poor, farmers and laborers and good governance and development is its conceptual philosophy and political thinking.
BJP is of the view that if villages would become prosperous than only the farmers would become affluent and the state would be prosperous and the prosperity of the country depends on the prosperity of the state, he added.