DERA MURAD JAMALI: The de-silting of Pat Feeder Canal would be completed in the first week of next month.

Briefing senators, MNAs, provincial ministers, MPAs and growers belonging to the Nasirabad district here on Sunday, Project Director Lt Col Arsalan Khan said about 35 per cent work had been done by the National Logistics Cell and the project would be completed by June 6.

He said water for drinking and irrigation purposes would be available before sowing of rice crop.

The project director said that after de-silting the canal would provide 6,700 cusecs of water to farmers daily. “Fifteen bulldozers, 90 excavators and 200 tractors are being used.”

He said that despite having reservations about security in the area the NLC initiated the project at a cost of Rs600 million in the larger interest of the province.

The canal had been devastated by flash floods over the past few years.

Published in Dawn, May 18th, 2015

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