3 new dams to be constructed in Uttarakhand says Gadkari

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said three dams would be constructed in Uttarakhand to stop unutilised share of India in river waters from flowing to Pakistan. The Minister for Water Resources and Transport said water from the dams would be brought to Haryana through the Yamuna river to overcome shortage and irrigate parched lands in the state. “It will be taken to other states also,” Gadkari said while addressing the 3rd Agri Leadership Summit-2018 on the concluding day here. “During the Partition, India got three rivers, but we could not utilise our share of the waters which kept flowing back to Pakistan,” he said.
“It will be taken to other states also,” Gadkari said while addressing the 3rd Agri Leadership Summit-2018 on the concluding day in Rohtak.

“During the Partition, India got three rivers, but we could not utilise our share of the waters which kept flowing back to Pakistan,” he said. Now, the central government has decided to stop the flow of the country’s due share into Pakistan and utilise it to feed our parched lands, he further stated.

Gadkari said the central government had taken several steps to utilise the water flowing into the ocean. Through drip irrigation, the farmers would get three times more water which would result in more than doubling the production.

He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured the farmers of the country one-and-a-half times the cost of production of crops as MSP “and we will achieve it at any cost”.