Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will perform Bhoomi Poojan of Chhaigaon lift irrigation scheme on Friday. The programme will be held near Chhaigaon Krishi Mandi of District Khandwa at 2 pm. It may be mentioned that this lift irrigation scheme has been made by the Narmada Valley Development Authority at the initiative of the CM. Moreover, the scheme will provide irrigation facility to the farmers who are deprived off irrigation facility from the Indira Sagar Irrigation Project on account of its geographical situation.
MP Nandkumar Singh Chouhan, Minister of State for Narmada Valley Development (Independent Charge) lal Singh Arya, Minister for Energy Paraschandra Jain and Minister for School Education Kunwar Vijay Shah will attend the programme as special guests. Moreover, MlAs Yogita Naval Singh Borkar, Shri lokendra Singh Tomar, Devendra Verma, President Jila Panchayat Hasina Bai, Mayor Khandwa Subhash Kothari and Chairman District Cooperative Bank Hukumchand Yadav will also participate in the programme.
Notably, Chhaigaon lift irrigation scheme will provide irrigation facility on 35 thousand hectare land of 58 villages including 51 villages of Khandwa and 7 villages of Pandhana Tahsil. The scheme to be constructed at an estimated construction cost of Rs 536.99 crore will be completed in three years. Moreover, under this special scheme irrigation, water will be provided through pipeline and water outlet will be given at every 2.5 hectare land area, which will facilitate pressure of at least 20 meter height. Furthermore, this will help farmers to irrigate their lands with sprinkler or drip irrigation system. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged the farmers for ‘Per Drop-More Crop’ meaning to irrigate more land with minimum water. This scheme will help fulfilling the intention of the Prime Minister.