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Narmada canal waters from Bhimdad through pipeline to Shetrunji dam in Saurashtra region under Phase-2 of the Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) Yojana – well in time before the difficult summer days. He also laid the foundation stone of extending the pipeline from Shetrunji to Raidi dam.
Speaking at the function, he said that 115 dams in the Saurashtra region would be filled
with the Narmada waters at a cost of Rs.18,000-crore by the coming year. Given water and
electricity, he said, the farmers of the state are capable of literally producing gold from the
land. He said that Bhavnagar will also get a desalination plant He asked the anti-development lobby as to why didn’t they raise the height of Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) dam on the Narmada River, why didn’t they fit the sluice gates to fill the dam to its full capacity, why didn’t they cared to take the Narmada canal waters up to the Saurashtra region.
Mr. Rupani said that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi when as the Chief Minister of Gujarat he had decided to take the surplus floodwater from the Narmada Canal to perennially free the parched land of the Saurashtra region from water shortage. At that time he was ridiculed by anti-Gujarat elements, having no face now to criticise the government.
He said that while the Congress Government deceived the farmers by disbursing paltry Rs.50,000-crore, the Narendra Modi Government started Kisan Sanman Nidhi Yojna to give
Rs.7.50-lakh crores to the farmers. The government is going ahead with the slogan of
‘Ayodhya-ma Ram; yuvano-ne kaam; kisano-ne sahi daam, monghwari-par lagam’.
Mr. Rupani also inaugurated the multi-storeyed Police Residential Quarters built by the
State Police Housing Corporation at a cost of Rs.23.73-crore at the Bhavnagar Police
Headquarters, and a hospital built in collaboration with Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) at
Alang shipbreaking yard. At the same time, he laid the foundation stone of total 2,496 EWS-
1 and EWS-2 flats by Gujarat Housing Board (GHB) at Tarasmania in Bhavnagar. The employees of Revenue Department and Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation presented a
cheque of Rs.19-lakh, and Krunal Group Rs.2.51-lakh for the martyrs’ families.
