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After Narmada dam, Gujarat did not become a storehouse of wheat like P...
Gandhinagar, 11 Febuary 2021
Wheat cultivation in Gujarat has declined a lot in the last 10 years. What is of concern is that what was there in 2010 has seen a decline in productivity rather than an increase in wheat productivity in 10 years.
With the decline in farming in Gujarat, the decline in productivity has become a concern for a se...
Narmada dam gets less water than last year
Kevadia Colony, 18 September 2020
This year, due to less rainfall in the catchment area of the Narmada Dam, the inflow of water into the dam was less. Last year's revenue was 34 thousand mcm, but this year it is about half 17 thousand mcm. Currently, 587 million cubic meters of water is stored.
More than 10 lakh farmers and 14 lakh hectares w...
Narmada dam and canal work completed, irrigation in 5 lakh hectare ins...
Gandhinagar, 19 June 2020
The Narmada Canal had a plan to irrigate 18.55 lakh hectares of land in Gujarat. According to him, despite 95 percent of the canals in Gujarat, more than 5 lakh hectares are not being irrigated. Thus, questions are being raised on the Narmada canals after an investment of one lakh crore rupees. Every farmer in Gujarat i...
Out of 40 thousand cusecs of Narmada, barely 4 thousand cusecs of wate...
Gandhinagar, 18 June 2020
The water level of Narmada Dam has reached 127.46 meters on June 17, 2020 in the morning. Live storage is around 2700 MCM. Water is being released from Madhya Pradesh dam at present. About 8600 cusecs of water is released in Gujarat through Narmada main canal. Despite having enough water in the Narmada, barely 8,000 cus...
Narmada dam made fools now spend Rs 20 thousand crore on salt water
Gandhinagar, 27 February 2020
The state government has signed an agreement with the Special Purpose Vehicle SPV to set up a 4C-water desalination plant in Devbhumi Dwarka, Bhavnagar, Kutch and Gir Somnath districts off the coast of Saurashtra-Kutch area in Gujarat.
The agreement was signed between Gujarat Water Infrastructure Limited, which is ...
Lives of 32,000 oustees put in ‘jeopardy’
The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), which had suspended its Narmada dam oustees' agitation at Badwani in Madhya Pradesh following the Gujarat government decision to open 25 of the 31 gates of the dam to keep water levels in the reservoir at 131 metres, has asserted that the state government is now "playing" with the situation.
In a statement it sa...