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| Tail-end fields high & dry due to less water in Ranbir Canal: Tony | | | 
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SUCHETGARH, July 23: DDC Member Suchetgarh Taranjit Singh Tony on Friday urged the Irrigation Department to carry out desilting of Ranbir Canal as water has been considerably depleted at the tail-end giving tough time to farmers during the season of sowing paddy crops.
The DDC member visited number of villages in the Suchetgarh belt including Village Seer, Bolichak, Nanowali, Mana, Hansa, Chakroi, Garani, Kapoorpur, Shekhachak, Haripur, Mokhey, Badayal Qaziyan to Sunderpur Head and inspected the canal stretches, the only source of irrigation in the border belt. After the inspection, he observed that the water level is far less than the requirement and the canal is of no use because all the fields at the tail-end are facing acute dearth of water due to low levels. He asked the irrigation officials to immediately start the desilting work which has not been accomplished properly this season by the apathetic helmsmen and also demanded to raise the water level at the canal heads near Belicharana so that water level could be maintained upto the tail end of the canal. The DDC member said that he will not allow any of discrimination with regard to water distribution from the Ranbir Canal. He made it clear that each drop of water from the canal will reach the field for which it has been drawn from the River Chenab. “There is no justification that due to one reason or the other the tail-end fields are subjected to scarcity of water as it is responsibility of irrigation department to ensure that no field in the vicinity is left high and dry on account of improper desilting or deliberate lowering of water levels at the upper ends”, he said and demanded early rectification of the issues which are leading to inadequate supply of water at the last stages of the canal. He said that the farmers have appealed that if the irrigation department will ensure 8-feet water level upto Belicharana then the problem can be resolved to a large extent. He asked the concerned authorities to do the needful as soon as possible to bail out the affected tillers from the water crisis which they are facing due to lethargy of the department of irrigation.
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