With the inauguration of the Saryu Canal Project, the farmers of nine districts, including Basti of Purvanchal, will reap the harvest of their hopes in this Rabi season.
Actually, due to the gap in the canal, people were not getting its benefit. To fill the gap, the farmers were demanding compensation for the land at the market rate. But, politics started being done about it.
Actually, due to the gap in the canal, people were not getting its benefit. To fill the gap, the farmers were demanding compensation for the land at the market rate. But, politics started being done about it.
42 years passed for the completion of this 10-year project. After the formation of the yogi government in the state, in 2018, the process of filling the gap was started with speed along with purchasing land at market rate.
The target was set to complete this project by 2022, but the yogi government spent Rs 31446 lakh before the scheduled time and completed the 140 km gap.
In all the governments that came in 41 years, farmers were on the agenda, but no one showed the strong will to complete this project.
With the passage of time, the cost of land and project also increased. Governments kept on changing and on the other hand, the officers also kept coming into the project. Everyone saw it from a different point of view. As a result, its construction cost was increased by revising three times.
The Saryu Canal Project was given the status of a national canal. Two Chief Engineers were deployed for monitoring for time-bound completion.
One sits in Gonda and the other in Faizabad. The number of superintending engineers was half a dozen and executive engineers more than a dozen.
In 1978, the target was to complete it in 10 years.
In 1978, the then chief minister Ram naresh Yadav made a plan for the 9 flood-affected districts of UP. In this, the Saryu Canal Project was started to store the water wasted during the flood and use it for irrigation of the fields. The target was set to complete it within 10 years.