Timely Rejuvination of Irrigation Canal ensured Monsoon Crops in Hundreds of Acres

Village Aadampur to Thadisawali are the habitats fully dependent an agriculture.  An irrigation canal about 7 km of length was  the only source of water for agriculture. Due to decades of silting and sedimentation, the canal has been rendered defunct. SSM has undertaken the challenge of rejuvination of the canal. The work began on 11 th of May.  The MLA of local constituency and The District Collector have extended their support through the available government schemes, in completing the task.  Adopting 'Doh' model of re strengthening, deepening and widening of the canal, the work was a completed, opening scope for holding about 32 crore litres of water.

        As a result, during this monsoon the wells around this  canal are fully recharged  and in particular, the over flow of water from the barren canal that would spread across hundreds of acres and spoil the crops has been prevented.  The mission was completed with an expenditure of 22 lakh Rupees,  out of which, Rupees 6 lakh was shared by  the government schemes and the local contribution.

         What Farmers say…..

Manoj Pente – “ The best part of this mission is the 'Doh'. These natural reservoirs store lakhs  of litres of water  which not only recharges  our bore wells but also come in  use, in case those wells fail and we need water for keeping our crops alive in emergency. So far we suffered great losses due to water overflowing from the so-called canal which used to  spread across our fields’.

Madhukar Kulkarni – "I am so glad to see, not even on acre of crop is damaged due to water stagnation on our field."

Balasaheb pente – “Ground water increased, bore wells are fully recharged,  water is not drowning our crops, what else do we need? We are so grateful to Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal”.