Gandhinagar:Gujarat Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani on Tuesday announced that the phase 2 and phase 3 of the Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) scheme to fill Saurashtra's 115 dams with Narmada water will be completed by August 15 and March, 2021 respectively and the officials concerned have been instructed accordingly.
The chief minister headed the progress review meeting regarding the works carried out under the second and third phase of SAUNI in Gandhinagar.
Rupani said,"SAUNI is a significant scheme reflecting the engineering feat to bring the Narmada river waters to fill 115 dam reservoirs in Saurashtra and thereby provide drinking and irrigational waters to 737 villages and 31 cities of 11 districts of Saurashtra region. The first phase of the scheme is completed and now filling of 16 dam reservoirs is possible."
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