Pakistan irrigation System updates

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RIVERS of Pakistan

1. Jhelum and Chenab, rivers meet at Trimmu.

2. All rivers of Punjab enter into river Indus at Kot Mithan.

3. River Indus is also known as , Abaseen river, Attock river and, Skardu river.

4. The smallest river of Pakistan is Ravi.

5. The longest river of Pakistan is Indus.

6. The total length of river Indus is 2900km.

7. The total length of river Ravi is 715km.

8. Harrapa city is situated on the bank of Ravi.

9. The river in Pakistan whose annual flow is twice, that of the Nile is river Indus.

10. The Indus River rises from Tibet.

11. There are seven rivers, flow in Baluchistan,.

12. Hingol is the largest river of Baluchistan.

13. Indus River ends at Arabian Sea,.

14. There are four rivers, flow in Sindh,.

15. Panjkora River, is located in KPK.

16. There are five rivers flow, in Punjab.

17. There are eight rivers flow in KPK.

18. Bolan River, is located in Baluchistan.

19. Baran River, is located in Sindh.

20. Most of the country’s rivers flow into Indus River.

21. There are twenty four rivers in Pakistan.

22. Dasht River, is located in Baluchistan.

23. Porali River, is located in Baluchistan.

24. Gomal and Karam rivers, are located in KPK.

25. Indus River is called Nile ,of Pakistan.

 

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Work in progress in Sadeqia Canal Division . Old public system is being restored after years .

This will provide water to the dry and barren land of Bahawalnagar and its restoration will cultivate 60,000 acres of land .

 

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Simly Dam Islamabad under construction in 1970.

Courtesy : Chaudhary Fakhar Zaman

 

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05 June,2021
The executive committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), which met here with the Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin in the chair, approved following

Gish Kaur Storage Dam was also approved at the total cost of Rs11.789 billion. The dam will have a storage capacity of 0.04580 Million Acre Feet (MAF) and will provide irrigation facilities to 13,800 acres of land. The project is expected to be completed by 2025.

The construction of the Panjgur Storage Dam Project was also approved at the total cost of Rs12.870 billion. The Ministry of Water Resources will sponsor the project which is located on the Rakhshan River.

Furthermore, the ECNEC also approved the Awaran Dam Project at the total cost of Rs14.86 billion. The project will be sponsored by the Ministry of Water Resources, whereas the Irrigation Department of the Government of Balochistan will execute the project.

 

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Barrages In Sindh

Guddu Barrage

Location and Brief Story:

The Barrage is situated 10 miles north-west of Kashmore and about 100 miles upstream of Sukkur Barrage on River Indus, almost at the northern boundary of Sindh Province. The Barrage has been designed for providing assured water supply and improvement and extension of Irrigation facilities of Sindh and Baluchistan areas, which were being irrigated by inundation canals, the supplies of which were depending on uncertain fluctuating water levels of River Indus. The construction of head works was completed in the year 1962. The whole area commanded by the Guddu Barrage designed non-perennial.

Of the four feeders off-taking from this Barrages, two feeders on the right bank namely the discharge canal and Begari Sindh Feeder provide water for rice cultivation and the third feeder, namely Pat Canal on the right bank and Ghotki on the left bank are designed for dry crop cultivation. The pace of growth in agriculture on this Barrage has been satisfactory and in fact almost all the feeders in Sindh are working for beyond their designed capacity in order to satisfy the growing needs of the farmers. The project was planned to be completed in all respects earlier but due to financial constraints, some works costing Rs.238.8 million are still to be completed


Sukkur Barrage


Location and Brief Story.

It is situated across River Indus, about 300 miles North East of Karachi. The Barrage is built on River Indus about 3 miles below the Railway Bridge, or the Sukkur Gorge. The idea of Sukkur Barrage, Barrage was conceived by Mr. C.A .Fife, in the year 1868, however, the project was finally sanctioned in 1923. The Head Works and Canals were completed by 1932. The Sukkur Barrage, is the pride of Pakistan’s Irrigation system and his the largest single Irrigation work of its kind in the whole world.

This Barrage which is the backbone of the economy of the entire Country through its net-work of Canals providing Irrigation supplies or an area of 7.63 million acres which forms approximately 25% of total canal irrigated area of the country. The Nara canal which is one of the 7 Canals off taking from this Barrage is the longest canal of this country, carrying discharge almost equal to that of Thames River at London and its bed width which is 346 ft. is 1 ½ (one and half) times as big as of Suez Canal.

In fact Nara Canal is not a man-made canal has it was the southern-most part of Hakro River which emanated from the foot hills of Sutlej which after traversing through the Punjab and Bhawalpur Plains joined Nara through Raini River, the remnants of which are still exiting in Ghotki Taluka. This Canal caters for an area of 2.3 million acres which is nearly equivalent to the entire Sindh area settled on Guddu Barrage alone.

The next largest canal is Rohri Canal which through slightly shorter in length than Nara Canal is yet taking discharge much more than the former. It has culture-able area of 2.6 million acres settled for Irrigation. Cotton crop, wheat crop and sugar-cane crop are the main crops grown on this canal system. All the four canals on the left and two canals on the right bank of River Indus are perennial canals, delivering Irrigation supplies all the year round.

The seventh canal namely, Rice Canal on the right side is a seasonal canal which flows only in Kharif Season and is designed for rice cultivation. The N.W. Canal on the right bank provides perennial Irrigation for an area of 9.65 Lac acres out of which 1.84 Lac acres are situated in Baluchistan Province, receiving Irrigation supplies from the canals which originate from the Barrages in Sindh and feed the areas in both the provinces.

Kotri Barrage

Location and Brief History:

Kotri Barrage is situated 3 miles North of Hyderabad City. The project was sanctioned a few months before the dawn of independence in 1947. The Head works, were completed in 1955, and the left bank no perennial canals received weir controlled supplies the same year while Akram wah (Perennial) was made operational in 1958. On the Right Bank one single canal, Kalri Bagar Feeder off takes and it started functioning for first time in year 1958.

Four feeder canals, three on the left and one on the right bank of River Indus off-take from this Barrage and deliver assured Irrigation Water supplies for an area of 3.0 million acres. The feeder on the right, namely, Kalri Bagar Feeder has a unique designed where the Keenjhar Lake forms the integral Part of the canal system. The Kalri Bagar Feeder upper puts its water at the Northern end of Keenjhar Lake, whereas Kalri Bagar Feeder draws its supplies from Southern end of the Lake at Chillya. This Feeder fives Irrigation supplies to an area which is partly designed to receive perennial supplies and partly seasonal supplies. It is major sources of perennial water supplies for the Metropolis of Karachi.

 

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Kurram Tangi Multipurpose Dam project coming along at a staggering pace due to relentless efforts by FWO work force. Once online in 2022 the Dam will see 18 Megawatt of power generation and 41Kms of irrigation canals capable of irrigating 16400 acres of land under stage 1.

 

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Beautiful view of Khairpur City of Sindh.
Buildings, water canals, green nature.

 

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Chotiari Dam is an artificial water reservoir, constructed in December 2002. Situated 35 km away from the Sanghar town in Sindh Pakistan. The main purpose of the reservoir construction was to store water during the monsoon period and supply it mainly for Rabi crops in winter.
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Punjab Government to sign agreement to build small intermediate dams.

In a bid to utilize water resources in an efficient manner, the Punjab government signed an agreement to build small and intermediate dams in the province.

According to details, the memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the provincial Irrigation ministry and NESPAK in a ceremony, which was also attended by CM Punjab Usman Buzdar.

Under the MoU, a feasibility study would be carried out using modern drone technique for the construction of small and intermediate dams at 13 hill ********.

Shedding light on the project, CM Punjab Usman Buzdar said that the pilot project for the construction of the reservoirs would begin in June this year.

“The water reservoirs will help in providing water to 200,000 acres of land, besides also minimizing the impact and losses from floods,” he said.

It is pertinent to mention here that other than Punjab province, small and big dams have been planned and established in other parts of the country also to ensure better utilization of water resources.

 

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Sajad Restaurant Khairpur. It was developed by District Govt Khairpur.

 

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Balochistan Govt is Constructing 49 New Dams in the Province.

In a bid to irrigate thousands of acres of land, the government of Balochistan has decided to construct around 49 new dams having an estimated cost of Rs. 6.451 billion in the fiscal year 2021-22.
According to the details, the construction of these dams would help reduce water scarcity and improve groundwater levels in certain areas.

The provincial government will initiate the construction of new dams in near future, expedite the construction work on the development of dams and increase the allocation in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) of the current financial year.

In the financial year 2021-22, Rs. 298 million has been allocated for the construction of the Awaran Dam and the development of the Command Area from a total estimated cost of Rs. 1.492 billion to harvest rainwater as the area was dependent on groundwater,” an official said.

Rs. 860.868 million has been spent by the government on the development of Phase II of the Command Area Development of Mirani Dam and Sabkazai Dam and Rs. 572.682 million has been reserved for Command Areas of these dams in Phase III

 

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WAPDA started construction work on the extension of Kachhi Canal

Expansion of Kachhi Canal will be done through three different contracts at a cost of Rs 19.50 billion.

Under the extension, 40 km long main canal will be constructed, 32 km long sub-canal irrigation system will be constructed.
Expansion of Kachhi Canal will be completed in August 2022, 30,000 acres of land in Dera Bugti district will be irrigated.

June 24, 2021: WAPDA has started construction work on the expansion of Kachhi Canal Project.
The Turtle Canal will be expanded through three different contracts. The expansion will cost Rs 19.50 billion, under which

A 40 km long main canal will be constructed. In addition, an irrigation system consisting of 32 km long sub-canals will also be constructed. The construction work will be completed by August 2022. After the expansion of Kachhi Canal, another 30,000 acres of land in Dera Bugti district of Balochistan province will be irrigated.

It may be mentioned that WAPDA has already completed 363 km long main canal and 81 km long irrigation system under the Kachi Canal project. Its command area covers 72,000 acres of land. The capacity is 6,000 cusecs which starts from Taunsa Barrage in Muzaffargarh district of Punjab and enters Balochistan through Dera Bugti district.

The Kachhi Canal project is important for the eradication of poverty and extremism in the backward and remote areas of the province through the development of agriculture, agro-based industries in Balochistan. The construction of the Kachhi Canal has made a positive difference in the lives of people in the backward areas of Sui and Dera Bugti.

Courtesy WAPDA
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