Guwahati News Desk: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be inaugurating the Saryu Nahar National Project in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur on Saturday.
The timing of the inauguration has been decided to be around 1 pm.
Earlier, on Friday, the PM took to Twitter to announce his presence in Uttar Pradesh. The post read as, “I would be in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh tomorrow, 11th December for a very special programme- the inauguration of the Saryu Nahar National Project. This project will solve irrigation-related problems in Eastern UP and help our hardworking farmers.”
As per the release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the work on the Saryu Nahar National Project started long back in 1978, but due to lack of continuity of budgetary support, interdepartmental coordination and adequate monitoring, it got delayed and was not completed even after nearly four decades.
In addition, the project was brought under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana with the target to complete it in a time-bound manner in 2016.
The PMO stated, “Prime Minister’s vision for farmer welfare and empowerment, and his commitment to prioritize long pending projects of national importance, brought much-needed focus on the project.”
The PMO added, “In this endeavour, innovative solutions were found for new land acquisition to construct new canals and fill the critical gaps in the project, and also for resolving the pending litigation related to the previous land acquisitions. The renewed focus on the project has resulted in the project being completed in only about four years.”
Moreover, the Saryu Nahar National Project has been built with a total cost of more than Rs. 9,800 crore, out of which more than Rs. 4,600 crore was provisioned in the last four years.
Furthermore, this particular project aims to provide assured water for irrigation of over 14 lakh hectares of land and benefit about 29 lakh farmers of over 6200 villages.