Himachal Governor and CM felicitate people on Makar Sankranti
Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu have felicitated the people of the state on Makar Sankranti. In his felicitation message, the Governor said that this joyous festival marks the end of winter and the
Punjab Water Resources Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer said that currently 175 cusecs of water is released in the Khanna distributary covering an area of 72,202 acres and there is a plan to increase its capacity to 251.34 cusecs of water.
Apart from local rains, water flows down through the rivers when states such as Himachal Pradesh see rainfall. The overspill from the large dams requires better management, necessitating additional storage facilities to release water downstream gradually.
To control the river's flow and to avert future floods, the Punjab drainage department has proposed construction of around six small dams at various locations, mostly within Haryana.
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