Prime Minister Modi visited Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, and inaugurated the Saryu Nahar National Project on December 11 at around 1 PM, on Friday.
Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a sharp dig at the Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav. He stated that he was waiting for someone to claim credits for the Saryu Nahar National Project worth ā¹ 9,800 crores in Balrampur – about 150 km from Lucknow – that he launched today.
“When I started from Delhi, I was waiting since morning ki kab koi aayega aur kahega (when will somebody come and say) … we laid the foundation stone for this project. Some people do this out of habit, maybe they cut the ribbon for this project in their youth. Some people’s priority is ‘imagination’, our priority is execution,” the Prime Minister said at the event.
The project aims at providing water for irrigation of over 14 lakh hectares of land and benefits around 29 lakh farmers of more than 6,200 villages, according to the Prime Ministerās Office (PMO). It will benefit nine districts in the region ā Bahraich, Shravasti, Gonda, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gorakhpur, and Maharajganj.
Prime Minister Modi visited Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, and inaugurated the Saryu Nahar National Project on December 11 at around 1 PM, on Friday.
Out of the total cost of Rs 9,800 crore, 4,600 crores was provisioned in the last four years. It will also interlink five rivers -Ghaghara, Saryu, Rapti, Banganga, and Rohini for optimum usage of water resources of the region.
The farmers of nine districts will now immensely benefit from the upgraded irrigation potential. They were the worst sufferers of the inordinate delay in the project. They will now be able to grow crops on a larger scale and maximize the agri-potential of the region.
The PMO said although work on the project began in 1978, it was delayed due to lack of continuity of budgetary support, interdepartmental coordination, and adequate monitoring and was not completed even after more than four decades.
The project was only settled after PM Modiās government took active measures to complete it, said the release.
āA project that was incomplete for four decades has been finished in four years,ā PM Modi tweeted.
You would be shocked to know that work on the Saryu Nahar National Project began in 1978 but for decades, the project was never completed. Costs increased and so did peopleās woes.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 10, 2021
A project that was incomplete for four decades has been finished in four years.
The launch comes a day after India bid a final farewell to General Bipin Rawat, who was killed along with his wife and 11 other defence personnel in a chopper crash in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
“The death of India’s first Chief of Defence Staff is a huge loss for every patriot of the country. The entire country witnessed General Rawat’s efforts in making the forces Atma-Nirbhar (self-reliant).”
“India is mourning but we won’t pause… we won’t stop progressing,” the Prime Minister added.
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