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Subject: LS: Ahmedabad to get Narmada water from March 13
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Times of India - March 9

Ahmedabad to get Narmada water from March 13
http://www.timesofindia.com/090301/09mahm1.htm

     GANDHINAGAR: Ahmedabad would start getting Narmada water via the Raska wier
     from March 13. Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel told a post-Cabinet news
     conference that, with this, "the current cut, in force for the past several
     months in Ahmedabad city, would come to an end". If the city has been
     getting 50 million gallons per day (MGD) of water till now, the total
     supply would go up to 85 MGD March 13 onwards.

     The CM also announced that the Vadodara Municipal Corporation, too, would
     start getting drinking water from Narmada by this weekend. "The canal near
     Vadodara has already got water. At present, its gates are closed. They
     would be opened this week to transfer water to Ajwa. This would enable
     the city to get Narmada water by the weekend," water resources minister
     Narottam Patel said.

     Other areas that would benefit from the Narmada water include villages of
     Bhavnagar, Amreli, Rajkot and Junagadh districts through a network of
     pipelines already in place in Saurashtra. However, neither did the CM nor
     the water resources minister clarify how much water these places would get
     and when. There was a hint that Vadodara, or the above mentioned places,
     would not need to tighten their belts as thought earlier.

     Under the original project of Rs 103 crore, scaled down to Rs 43 crore, as
     many as 54 pipes with a diametre of four metres are being used for pumping
     out nearly 1,150 to 1,200 cusecs of water and flowing it into the Narmada
     canal.  Another 44 such pipelines would be laid to take water to be pumped
     out of the Narmada reservoir to 1,500 cusecs.

     A senior ruling BJP politician alleges that a lot of this water is being
     taken out of the reservoir and put into the canal by using a small bypass
     tunnel in "complete violation of the Narmada Control Authority guidelines".
     A bigger bypass tunnel is being constructed and used for channelling water
     within a week. "This is for the first time that Gujarat has not complied
     by the four lateral states' agreement," he said.

     A top government official, refusing to comment on this for fear of its
     triggering a major controversy, says, "We are not talking about the bypass
     tunnel at all, as it is not in Gujarat's interests". He refuses to say how
     much water the state is getting by the bypass tunnel and how much more it
     would get in future. The NCA has already rejected the state's request to
     allow building a bypass tunnel.

     Narmada water started flowing in the canal on February 27. On February 28,
     all the four dikes were filled by water from the Narmada reservoir.
     On March 1, water already reached 145 away, at the Mahi junction canal.
     On March 7, water filled up Panam Aquaduct. "We have gates at every 12.5 km
     on the Narmada canal. Only when water reaches about three metres do we open
     fresh gates", Narottam Patel said.

     After a long time, the CM gave all the credit for the "good work" done in
     bringing the Narmada water to his known political opponent, Narottam Patel,
     a votary of Union textile minister Kashiram Rana. "This has been done in a
     record time," the CM said, adding, "The work has continued unabated despite
     the quake crisis."

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