Monitoring Desk
QUETTA: The PC-1 of the second phase of the Kachhi Canal Project will be approved soon, to extend the project by another 58 kilometers.
An official said that the Kachhi canal’s phase-I project would be completed in February as the project’s development work is about to finish. The project consisted of 363 kilometers lengthy and would irrigate 103,000 acres of barren land in adjoining areas, including Dera Bugti.
Under the expansion works, the existing central canal would be further extended by another 40 kilometers in the project’s third phase.
Kachhi Canal Project will Irrigate 175000 acres of Land
This project will irrigate a total area of 175000 acres in Dera Bugti, Jhal Magsi, Kachchi districts, Naseerabad, and other regions. The 500 kilometers long canal, with a discharge capacity of 6000 cusecs water, which start from Muzaffargarh district of Punjab, Taunda Barrage, enters Baluchistan via district Dera Bugti.
Kachhi Canal is a crucial project to eradicate extremism and alleviate poverty in Baluchistan’s remote and backward areas by developing an agro-based economy and irrigated agriculture in the province.
It is a good sign for the province that the land cultivated in Sui and adjacent areas of the Dera Bugti district through the existing Kachhi Canal has brought an unprecedented change in the livelihood of the locals.
