Cabinet Minister Aman Arora launches underground pipeline project costing 30 crores in first phase

85 watercourses to be replaced by underground pipelines, around 32,000 acres to get canal water

Mann government committed to save the depleting level of underground water: Aman Arora

Daljeet Kaur

Sunam Udham Singh Wala, May 13, 2023: Under the commitment of the Punjab Government to transform Sunam Assembly Constituency, Cabinet Minister Aman Arora formally kick started an important project to lay underground pipelines in 192 moghas of Sunam Constituency which was approved about 4 months ago. Cabinet Minister Aman Arora, while inaugurating this project at Namol Road, said that the campaign to encourage farmers to use canal water for agriculture was underway across Punjab. He said that a project costing Rs 68 crore to replace 192 moghas of canal watercourses under Sunam’s Kotla branch with underground pipelines or concrete based watercourses will be implemented through the Punjab Water Resources Management and Development Corporation and 85 moghas will be completed at a cost of Rs 30 crore in the first phase which would provide canal water for irrigation for 32 thousand acres of land. Cabinet Minister said that under this project, around 26,500 hectares of land will be facilitated with better canal water irrigation by constructing an estimated 400 km of underground pipelines or concrete based water courses.

Aman Arora said that the rate at which the ground water level is depleting every year, is a matter of great concern and therefore this project will be very useful for making more use of canal water. Arora said that by laying the underground pipelines, the farmers would be able to save Rs 4000 per annually apart from utilisation of land. He said that the farmers should take advantage of this campaign of the government. He said that according to the instructions of Punjab Water Resources Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, the officials of the departments concerned across Punjab were conducting cluster level awareness camps in the villages so that maximum farmers would be made aware of the use of canal water.

On this occasion, XEN Er. Damandeep Singh, SDO Gagandeep Singh and Shawfil Virk, Mukesh Juneja, Bhanu Pratap, Harbans Singh ex Sarpanch Bhagwanpura, Gurtej Singh Nikka MC, Sunny Kansal MC, Harpal Handa MC, Ram Singh, Babu Singh, Bagga Singh, Ram Qila Bharia and others were also present.