The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) will construct a Regional
Office building at Sector -24 in the new capital city, officials informed.
The Chhattisgarh Gover-nment had also recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NABARD with the latter agreeing to provide loan worth nearly ` 715 crore for completion of three incom-plete major irrig-ation schemes under Prime Minister Agri-culture Irrigation Scheme.
These schemes include- Kelo Major Irrigation Project, Kharang Canal lining Project and Maniyari Canal lining, which are to be completed by year 2019 to meet the target.
The completion of these projects will expand irrigation facility in 47,685 hectares, officials informed. Officials of Water Resources Department informed on the occasion that Central Government has included 99 important schemes in Prime Minister Agriculture Irrig-ation Scheme, which includes three big projects of Chhat-tisgarh.
All these three projects are on the verge of comp-letion. 99% of the works under these projects has been completed, remaining construct-ion works will also be completed soon.