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Odisha to spend Rs 10,000 crore for lift irrigation projects
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SME Times News Bureau | 10 Sep, 2018
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday inaugurated 41 Parvati Giri
mega lift irrigation projects, while the government has decided to spend
Rs 10,000 crore under the scheme in the next five years.
The 41
projects would help irrigate an additional 50,000 hectares land in nine
districts, including Gajapati, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Bargarh, Sonepur,
Balangir, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Boudh.
Inaugurating the
projects through video conferencing here, the Chief Minister said while
the government aims to ensure water irrigation facility in additional 10
lakh hectares cultivated land by 2019, the facility has already been
provided in over 7-lakh-hectare land.
He further said the government will spend Rs 10,000 crore in the next five years to include more farmlands in the project.
Leader
of Opposition (LoP) Narasingh Mishra urged the Chief Minister to take
steps to avail of the irrigation facility in more cultivated lands in
Bolangir.
The mega lift irrigation project, which was
conceptualized in 2011-12, has been named after freedom fighter and
social activist Parvati Giri.
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