Staff Reporter
Peshawar
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Irrigation Department has completed a total of 44 irrigation schemes during 2019, bringing up to 7000 acres of land under cultivation in Nowshera and Swabi districts of the province. The spokesman of the department unveiling the annual performance report 2019 said the department has taken various measures to irrigate barren lands and to provide water to the cultivable land of the province.
He said the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Pehur high level canal extension project costing Rs10.156billion would irrigate 30500 acre of land of Khyber Pakhtunkwa. The dams completed in Nowshera and Swabi are Gul Dehray dam, Jalazoai dam and Kundal dams. To offset impact of the environmental changes he said the department has taken various measures to bring maximum land under cultivation in the province.
Similarly in another districts of the province construction work on small dams had been started including Pezu dam Lakki Marwat costing Rs 758.462 million. He said that Chipra small dam Haripur district would be completed at cost of Rs 888.873million and Chamak Maira dam Abbottabad at Rs 1130.538million. Similarly he said Achra and Manchura small dams would be constructed at cost of Rs 2885.644 million. Similarly, work has also been started on improving storage capacity of Barani dams in the province for which Rs. five billion had been set aside.
