Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, on August 30, 2016, inaugurated the first phase of SAUNI project in Jamnagar Gujarat, which was initiated by him in 2012 while he was serving as the Chief Minister of the State. The Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) project was launched by Mr. Modi in September 2012 and aims at diverting water from Sardar Sarovar Dam to various other dams in otherwise dry Saurashtra region using pipelines and other techniques. This would help with irrigation of 4.13 lakh hectares of land in drought-prone Saurashtra. The Prime Minister pressed a button at the Aji-3 dam to open Gate Two, Three and Four, to start release of the water that would fill up Aji-4 dam. Simultaneously, water would also be pumped into Uund-4 reservoir.
Under the project, nearly 10 dams and reservoirs of Rajkot, Jamnagar and Morbi will be filled up with the water of Narmada River. The Rs. 12,000-crore project will fill up nearly 115 dams of Saurashtra region which faces shortage of water for irrigation and drinking purposes. The overflowing water of the Narmada is sent to different reservoirs through network of canals. Saurashtra, which comprises 11 districts, faces drought like situation often and has been reeling under severe water scarcity due to scanty rainfall for the last two years.
The project has been launched to divert one MAFt excess over flowing floodwater of Narmada allocated to Saurashtra region. The excess over flowing floodwater of Narmada will be distributed to 115 reservoirs of eleven districts of Saurashtra through total 1,126-km long four link pipelines benefitting 10,22,589 acres of land. Under SAUNI Yojana, work of about 230 Km length of pipeline works arc commenced since March 2014 and are under p!ogress
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