Canal to irrigate Khushab’s villages
Rs50b project to provide clean drinking water will be completed in four years
More than 50 watercourses will be constructed and 26 villages will be provided 40 cusecs of clean drinking water. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KHUSHAB:
The Jalalpur Canal will irrigate 177,000 acres of land in 80 villages of Jhelum and Khushab and also provide clean drinking water to at least 26 villages.
The mega project will cost Rs50 billion and the canal will be completed in four years. Project Director Khalid Hussain told The Express Tribune that Jalalpur Canal is being constructed on the site of Rasool Barrage on Jhelum river at a cost of Rs50 billion. “This project will irrigate the area of about 80 villages of Pind Dadan Khan, Jhelum and Khushab tehsils.”
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