Water and Sanitation

Cabinet okays Rs. 44k crore social sector package.

Publication: Economic Times, New Delhi.
Date: February 08, 2008
Synopsis: In a move that could be a precursor to the Budget, the Cabinet announced Rs 43,700-crore financial assistance to on-going social sector programmes. The assistance includes an irrigation package and over 12,000 fellowship to scheduled tribe students for higher studies in the next five years.
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New water channel to meet water requirement of Gurgaon.

Publication: Economic Times, Chandigarh.
Date: January 24, 2008
Synopsis: The Haryana Government has decided to construct a 65.6 km long National Capital Region (NCR) Water Supply Channel at a cost of Rs. 225 crore to meet the growing demand of water for drinking, industrial and other purposes in the fast growing Gurgaon town and other purposed townships of Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) and SEZs by corporate developers in the area.
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Gujarat to be water deficient despite Sardar Sarovar.

Publication: Business Standard, Mumbai.
Date: January 22, 2008
Synopsis: The Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), which is expected to irrigate drought-prone areas like Kutch and Saurashtra and bring water facilities to thousands of villages in the state, could still prove to be insufficient to counter the water crisis in the state, opine experts.
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Government could miss vital irrigation targets because of slow funding.

Publication: Mint, New Delhi.
Date: December 17, 2007
Synopsis: Anew momentum after a lull of two years in the Union government’s ambitious irrigation programme that aims to cover 10 million ha by 2009 could be stalled for the want of adequate funds. The government, so far, has sanctioned only 41% of the Rs8, 580 crore sought in the current fiscal year by the ministry of water resources to finance irrigation projects, considered to be a key to raising agricultural production in the country.
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$300 million from World Bank for Bengal projects.

Publication: Business Standard, Kolkata.
Date: December 05, 2007
Synopsis: The West Bengal government is likely to get a fund of $300 million, or nearly Rs 1200 crore, under the West Bengal Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation Project, from the World Bank by October 2008.
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Adopt drip irrigation, coconut farmers told.

Publication: The Hindu, Krishnagiri.
Date: October 24, 2007
Synopsis: Coconut farmers will adopt drip irrigation system to increase their crop yield. Drip irrigation scheme is being implemented in the district with 50 per cent subsidy for 2007-08 under the National Horticulture Mission.
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Water plan target set at 1000.

Publication: Business Standard, Kolkata.
Date: August 20, 2007
Synopsis: The Orissa government will make efforts to complete at least 1000 projects under Piped Water Supply Scheme during the current fiscal. A provision of Rs.294 crore has been made in 2007-08 for supply of drinking water with special focus on the distressed villages.
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AP lift schemes may hit power roadblock.

Publication: Business Standard, Chennai.
Date: August 03, 2007
Synopsis: In a first-ever attempt at creating the irrigation potential to 41.55 lakh acres through lift schemes, the Andhra Pradesh government is forming a new consumer category that requires 55 million units of power a day. The near-impossible task is part of a Rs 90,000-crore irrigation project proposed by the Congress government.
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