Full share of water reaches Rajasthan’s Sidhmukh Canal Project after 18 years
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District administration stopped water theft by guarding the 64-km-long distributary round-the-clock.
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District administration stopped water theft by guarding the 64-km-long distributary round-the-clock. Eighteen years after the construction of the Raslana distributary of the Sidhmukh Canal Project in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district, farmers at the tail-end have started getting their full share of water. The water had become insufficient because of illegal diversion through pipelines to the villages in neighbouring Haryana for its sale.
The district administration formulated a unique strategy to stop the theft of water by guarding the 64-km-long distributary round-the-clock earlier this month. Officers of the Police, Revenue, Agriculture, Fisheries, Zila Parishad and Labour Departments guarded the canal in cold and foggy weather for more than a week as part of a r