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| Irrigation Department converts LIS to gravity scheme midway | | Change causes loss of Rs 80 lakhs | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 1: The abrupt conversion of a Lift Irrigation Scheme to gravity scheme which was under execution by the Irrigation Department caused a loss of Rs 80 lakhs to the State exchequer. Moreover, the department made no effort to overcome the deficiency resulting the scheme was still incomplete and non functional.
Source told Early Times that Lift Irrigation Scheme Siot of district Nowshera was converted to gravity scheme after incurring Rs 80 lakh which was made functional in 2003, but it could not provide dependable irrigation to the farmers due to leakages in the canal due to which, Irrigation Potential of only 430 hectares was created against envisaged Culturable Command Area (CCA) of 1160 acres. "The Irrigation Department made various blunders in execution of scheme. The works was not executed in a planned manner to avoid wastage of resources. The department had not incorporated the degraded components in the project report of the scheme formulated for conversion. Moreover when the work of conversion was in hand, the pumping unit of the scheme was replaced in 2003 at a cost of Rs 25 lakhs, which functioned only for eight months and thereafter remained idle due to said conversion," they said. They said further adding that the pumping machinery had not been dismantled as of 2008 and the idle pumping machinery could not be retrieved as the same could be utilized in case of failure of gravity scheme however, the pumping machinery could have been gainfully utilized elsewhere. "The poor planning of the Department can be gauged from that fact that the machinery which was lying idle since last 12 year at LIS Siot was proposed to be utilized at LIS Dabbar Ptha and Thandapani. But parameters of this machinery did not match with the requirement at LIS Dabbar Potha and LIS Thandapani due to which it could not be shifted to these stations," they said. |
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