Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will lay the foundation of Bistan lift Irrigation Scheme on Sunday. The programme will be conducted at 2 pm at village Bistan of district Khargone. Minister for School Education Kunwar Vijay Shah, Minister of State for Narmada Valley Development (Independent Charge) lal Singh Arya, Members of Parliament Nandkumar Singh Chouhan and Subhash Patel will be the special guests in the programme.
MlAs Balkrishna Patidar, Shri Vijay Singh Solanki, Hitendra Singh Solanki, Raj Kumar Mev, Jhuma Solanki, Sachin Yadav and President Jila Panchayat Kamla Kedar Dabar will be the guests on the occasion.
It may be mentioned that the maximum area of Goganva, Bhagwanpura and Khargone tahsils was not coming under the irrigation command area despite covering 69,000 hectare area of Khargone tehsil from Indira Sagar Major Irrigation Project. Beside less traditional irrigation resources in this area, the complete area also comes under the less rainfall category. An outline of lift irrigation system is prepared by the Narmada Valley Development Authority to provide irrigation water from the Narmada River. This system will facilitate irrigation on 22,000 hectare area of Goganva, Bhagwanpura and Khargone tehsils. This lift irrigation scheme will prove fruitful for the prosperity of farmers of this area.
Under the scheme, 8 cumex water will be lifted by building jack well at the main canal RD 101 kilometer of Indira Sagar Project near village Mohammadpur of Khargone district. lifted water will be delivered to the booster pump located at Devalgaon through 8 kilometer long rising main. From here, water will be lifted and supplied to the distribution chamber no.1 at village Meherghati through 8 kilometer long rising main. This distribution chamber will facilitate irrigation on 14 thousand 680 hectare area. Moreover, 2.304 cubic meter water will be lifted from the distribution chamber no.1 and supplied to distribution chamber no. 2 through 6 kilometer long rising main to provide irrigation facility on 7,320 hectare area.
Under the traditional irrigation schemes, irrigation water is provided to each 40 hectare area. Farmers on their own make arrangements to take water to their fields from this.