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| Ensure irrigation facilities upto tail end: Bhalla | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, MAY 27- Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Mr. Raman Bhalla, has directed the Irrigation department to ensure irrigation facilities upto tail end of rural areas.
The Minister said Government is committed to provide adequate irrigation facilities to the farmer community through Ranbir canal, irrigation tube wells and pump sets so that they do not face any inconvenience during sowing season.
The Minister was addressing the people after assessing the irrigation related problems in Raipur-Satwari, Sumali Mohallah, Hakal Village and old Satwari areas, here this evening.
District Development Commissioner, Jammu Mr. Sanjeev Verma, and other senior officers of Irrigation and Flood Control departments accompanied the Minister.
Mr. Bhalla asked the department to immediately start desilting works of minor and major distributaries in the areas so that the irrigation water could reach upto tail end of the villages. He asked the engineers to repair the breach portion of the distributaries of the areas so that the farmer community could avail the benefit.
The Minister asked the people not to put debris in the irrigation distributaries as such type of practices not only create problems for the department but also affects the farmers.
The Minister informed that Government has launched number of schemes for boosting the agriculture production across the State like providing latest techniques equipments. He said that several sale outlets have been opened especially in far off and rural areas for providing timely seeds and fertilizers to the farmers.
NO:PR/DI/2011/1389/Joshi//
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