Tahir Mushtaq
JAMMU, Dec 18: There is some good
news for the people of Jammu, 95 per cent work on the artificial lake in river
tawi has been completed and officials said that lake is likely to be completed
by July 2013.
This was disclosed by the Executive
Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control Department, Attaf-ullah Naz while
talking to TNI adding that some remaining work has to be completed and
hopefully the construction work of lake would be completed by next year.
Naz further said that there would be
total of 31 gates which are to be installed including 11 in upper portion and
20 in lower portion adding that in case of flood, the gates of the lake would
be opened.
The first deadline for the
completion of the artificial lake project expired on October 2012, which was
extended to March 30, 2013, but it has been further extended to July 2013 as
the department failed completes the remaining work on time.
According to official the total of
69.70 crore rupees was approved by the state government on the said project by
nearly 50 percent of the total fund has been sanctioned so far.
It is pertinent to mention here that
the design of the artificial lake's project over Tawi River was approved by the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. A team of experts from Pakistan
inspected the project of artificial lake.
To make the Jammu city more
attractive for the visitors, while using the barrage water to augment the
irrigation facilities in the paddy grown areas of the district.
The reservoir would enable to lift
700 cusecs of water from Tawi to recharge the Ranbir Canal to irrigate 8000
kanals of agriculture land at the tail end villages, still dependent on the
rainfalls.
The lake project which was approved
by the then Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Jagmohan in 1986, witnessed much
delay and it was about three years back that the government initiated the
process for its construction. The design approval also took months before it
was approved by the Central Water Commission.
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