Ropar: Several villages in Sri Chamkaur Sahib tehsil are set to get long-awaited relief with the launch of a canal-based lift irrigation project at Oind on Thursday.Punjab water minister Barinder Kumar Goyal said the scheme would supply canal water to areas that have so far relied on depleting groundwater, leaving many small farmers dependent on others for irrigation.Despite major canals such as the Sirhind Canal and Bhakra Main Line Canal passing through the region, several villages had remained deprived of irrigation facilities, he said. The Rs 44.8-crore project is expected to irrigate around 4,500 acres across villages including Sri Chamkaur Sahib, Sallomajra, Gaggon, Gadhram Khurd, Gadhram Kalan, Pippalmajra, Rurki, Talapur, Dugri, Kotli, Kamalpur and Rampur Bet. Under the scheme, water will be lifted from the Samrala Minor of the Bhakra Main Line Canal near Oind and routed to a distribution network via a main pipeline and storage tank at Gaggon, covering multiple villages.
