Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the muse stone for the Ken-Betwa River Linking Venture on December 25 in Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh. PM is taking the initiative to understand former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s dream of the river linking marketing campaign. That is the primary such initiative below the nationwide river interlinking coverage. At round 12:30 pm, Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the muse stone of a number of improvement initiatives in Khajuraho.
Ken-Betwa mission highlights
With an estimated price of Rs 44,605 crore, the mission includes constructing a 77-meter-high, 2.13-kilometer-long Daudhan Dam on the Ken River throughout the Panna Tiger Reserve. A 221-kilometer canal will switch water from the Ken River to the Betwa River. Together with this, the hydropower initiatives will contribute greater than 100 MW in inexperienced vitality. The mission may also create many employment alternatives in addition to strengthen the agricultural financial system.
Beneath the mission, a 77-metre excessive and a couple of.13 kilometres lengthy Daudhan dam and two tunnels (higher degree 1.9 km and decrease degree 1.1 km) will likely be constructed on the Ken river within the Panna Tiger Reserve. The dam will retailer 2,853 million cubic metres of water.
The excess Ken water will likely be transferred to the Betwa river by the 221-km-long hyperlink canal from Daudhan dam, offering irrigation and ingesting water services in each UP and MP.
These districts will likely be benefitted
Beneath this mission, 8.11 lakh hectare space might be irrigated in 2,000 villages of 10 districts – Panna, Damoh, Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Niwari, Sagar, Raisen, Vidisha, Shivpuri and Datia. The mission will present an annual irrigation facility in 59,000 hectare space in Uttar Pradesh and stabilisation of the present irrigation in 1.92 lakh-hectare space, which is able to present irrigation services in Mahoba, Jhansi, Lalitpur and Banda districts of UP
MP CM Mohan Yadav’s assertion
MP Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Tuesday stated practically 44 lakh individuals in 10 districts of Madhya Pradesh and 21 lakh in Uttar Pradesh will get ingesting water below the mission.
“Prime Minister Modi is coming to Khajuraho in Chhatarpur district on December 25 to put the muse of this mission which is able to change the picture and future of Bundelkhand in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The Ken-Betwa Hyperlink Venture is a singular instance of cooperation and coordination between the central authorities, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh,” he stated.
(With PTI inputs)