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Rejuvenation of water bodies and construction of vented dams across the rivers will be given thrust in the district irrigation plan of Dakshina Kannada under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY).
In an informal chat with presspersons in Mangaluru on Tuesday, Kempe Gowda, Joint Director of Karnataka Agriculture Department, Mangaluru, said that the district-level committee has approved the district irrigation plan under PMKSY. The plan, which is spread over five years, involves the participation of departments such as Agriculture, Horticulture, Irrigation, Forest and Industries. These departments have proposed the rejuvenation of water bodies such as farm ponds, tanks, open wells and lakes; and also the construction of vented dams across the rivers flowing in the district.
Water budget has been prepared by the district-level committee based on the requirement of every department and the availability of water in the district, he said. The five-year district irrigation plan estimates to take up around 2.08 lakh works with the irrigation potential for 1.43 lakh hectares of land in the district. A majority of works are proposed in Horticulture and Agriculture departments in the district irrigation plan.
The plan will be forwarded to the state-level committee.
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