Manipur dam to be commissioned in June
 
Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi recently said that his government is taking all necessary steps to commission the much-awaited Khuga multi-purpose project dam before the arrival of rainy season this year.
Ibobi while interacting with a group of newspersons at the end of his inspection of the Khuga project site, assured that non-power supply components of the multipurpose project would be commissioned in or before June/July next.
Khuga dam in Churachandpur district which is targeted to be completed in June this year with an investment of Rs 283.50 crore, has been delayed ‘owing to termination of the original contract, financial constraints and law-and-order situation in the state’.

Although officials of the Irrigation and Flood Control department, the implementing agency of the government claimed to have completed construction of the dam, the construction of its spill way, radial gates, canal system, electro mechanical parts and power house is still continuing.

However, recollecting the present construction status of the multi-purpose dam which was started way back in 1983-84, Ibobi announced that excluding the power generation part, other major components of the dam such as irrigation and water supply would be started within next month.

“For this, the government is trying to work out a programme soon” Ibobi said. For the first phase, the Irrigation department in consultation with the Public Health Engineering department is planning to release water from the Khuga dam reservoir for drinking and irrigation purposes to those villagers along the canals of the dam till Seidan village, around 20 km away from the dam site.

PHE sources said once the Zone III project of Bualian Hill is completed, drinking water supply as well as irrigation purpose water could be provided for those people living in some parts of Churachandpur district headquarters and 13 other villages. UP Jal Board, the implementing agency of the project has so far completed 60 per cent construction work at Bualian Hill.

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