Indira Gandhi Nahar(canal) Project
Indira Gandhi Nahar Project (IGNP) is one of the most gigantic projects in the world aiming to dedesertify and transform desert waste land into agriculturally productive area. Theproject objectives include drought proofing, providing drinking water, improvement of environment, afforestation, employment, rehabilitation, development and projection of animal wealth and increasing agricultural produce.
The project construction commenced in the year 1958. Though the project is only partially complete it has shown remarkable success.
Indira Gandhi Nahar Project was designed to utilise 9,367 Mm3/yr of the total 10,608 Mm3/yr allocated to Rajasthan from the surplus waters of the Ravi and Beas rivers. The construction of the project has been divided into two stages.
Stage I
Stage I consists of a 204 km long feeder canal, having a headworks discharge capacity of 460 m3/sec, which starts from Harike Barrage. 170 km of the feeder canal lie in Punjab and Haryana and 34 km in Rajasthan.
The entire system of stage-I consists of the 204 km long feeder canal, 189km long main canal and 3454 km long distribution system, is concrete lined, and serves 553 kha of culturable command area, out of which 46 kha are served by pumping to a 60 m lift, through four pumping stations.
In addition to irrigation and domestic water supply through this project , it has been proposed by the Rajasthan State Electricity Board (RSEB) to install a total of 12.76 MW of mini hydro electric power stations, to utilise the available water fall in the canal. One such power station, with an installed capacity of 2´2 MW has already started functioning at the Suratgarh branch of IGNP stage I.
Stage II
IGNP Stage II comprises construction of a 256 km long main canal and 5,606 km of a lined distribution system, and will serve 1,410 kha of CCA (873577 ha area in flow and 537018 ha under lift), utilising 4,930 Mm3/yr of water. The main canal in the entire length was completed in the year 1986.
The Indira Gandhi Canal started in 1958 took 28 years to be finished! Who built it?
ReplyDeleteIndia has built more that 4500 canals and have all the expertise. We wish Colombia start thinking about projects of interoceanic canal in Choco, who began from the times of the Colony. Bolivar give the order to dig the San pablo Istmus in 1922. The Congress of Colombia order the construction of the Atrato-Truando Canal by law 53 in 1984. Studies have been madem niothing has been done!
La construcción del Canal Indira Gandhi empezó en 1958 y tomó 28 años para terminarse. Quién lo construyó? La India tiene mas de 4500 canales y por lo tanto ellos tienen muchísima experiencia en este tipo de construcción. Deseamos que en Colombia se empiece a pensar en este proyecto del canal interoceánico en el Chocó que se pensó desde la época de la Colonia. Simón Bolivar dió la orden de excavar el canal del Istmo de San Pablo en 1822. El Congreso de Colombia ordenó la construcción del canal Atrato-Truandó por la ley 53 de 1984. Se han realizado los estudios pero el canal no se ha construído. En nuestra generación podríamos construirlo y avanzar el desarrollo de nuestro hermoso pais Colombia
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