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Subject: Rs 86 billion plan to augment water resources
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 05:21:18 -0500
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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org) Posted: 06/19/2001 By daima@brain.net.pk
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Rs 86 billion plan to augment water resources
The News, By Our Staff Reporter, 19/06/2001
http://www.dawn.com/2001/06/19/top7.htm
ISLAMABAD, June 18: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz in his budget speech on
Monday spelt out a three-year plan worth Rs86 billion aimed at augmenting
water resources in the country. The plan, which includes projects like
construction of Gomalzam and Mirani dams in Balochistan and irrigation
schemes like Thal and Katchi canals will provide additional storage capacity
of 4.5 MAF of water and bring nearly one million acres under cultivation.
The plan, Mr Aziz claimed, would generate thousands of jobs for construction
labourer in execution phase and after completion to farm workers and
peasants. He said agriculture was the most important sector among the four
selected for leading the process of economic growth. "Pakistan is endowed
with an immensely productive agrarian base, but its harnessing on a
sustainable basis has always remained a distant dream," he said.
The finance minister also enlisted what he termed the four challenges facing
the agriculture sector of the country. These included water shortages, poor
marketing, narrow export base and limited supply of credit, facing the
agriculture sector. He said the government was also formulating a package of
assistance with the help of all the public-sector financial institutions to
provide funding for water conservation and development schemes by
introducing new means of irrigation and extending loans for installation of
tubewells, open wells desilting and brick-lining for water channels and
construction of mini dams.
Furthermore, 10,000 tube-wells would also be installed in the provinces to
increase the availability of water at farm level, he added. He said the
government had designed a new policy for corporate agriculture which would
be shortly announced by the minister for agriculture. The finance minister
said the role of the Trading Corporation of Pakistan as a stabilizing factor
would be maintained. The government, he said, had already withdrawn all
restriction of movement of wheat with a view to provide better returns to
the farmers.
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