Uneven distribution of rainfall across India has created a crisis for farmers who deal with the loss of agricultural harvest each year.
Assam’s Dhemaji district is the best example of the flood-drought erratic cycle that goes on every year.
According to a Times of India report, Rs 5.5 crore will be spent on an area of 1,000 square kilometres informed U.P irrigation minister, Dharmpal Singh.
Singh told media persons in Varanasi that the project will begin in Mahoba, in the Bundelkhand region and will benefit farmers in the entire district as well as other drought-stricken areas.
Apart from the artificial rainfall assistance, Uttar Pradesh is also likely to get 22 percent of water from the Ken river, a tributary of Yamuna that flows in the Bundelkhand region as well as the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
"The state government is working on river restoration on a war footing.
Work is on for Gomti and Varuna," Singh told TOI.
The engineers in the irrigation department have been asked to remove the encroachments from the bed of Varuna river and to complete the channelization process so that water can be extracted as early as possible.
Funds have been allocated and work has started on four pending irrigation projects on central Ganga canal, Surya canal, Bansagar, and Arjun project.
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