Department News    There are 02 main canals (Lower Ganga Canal and parallel Lower Ganga Canal) in the organization and through 07 branch canals coming out of the Lower Ganga Canal, 176 Distributary Rajbeha and 812 Alpika total 997 canals, irrigation facility is made available in 8637.120 km 0 length in 12 district or Under the organization, the head of the main canal falls in Narora district Bulandshahr and tail in Kaushambi district.

Organization Introduction


Narora barrage was constructed in the year 1967 at a place called Narora in Tehsil Dibai of district Bulandshahr. Two canal systems emerge from the right bank of this barrage, out of which the Lower Ganga Canal was constructed in the year 1878 and the parallel Lower Ganga Canal in 1982. All the canals of the organization come under the Lower Ganga Canal System. There are 02 main canals in the organization (Lower Ganga Canal and parallel Lower Ganga Canal) and through 07 branch canals coming out of the Lower Ganga Canal, 176 nos. Rajbaha and 812 nos. Alpika total 997 Irrigation facilities are provided in a total of 8637.120 km length of canals. Under the organization, the head of the main canal falls in Narora district Bulandshahr and tail in Kaushambi district.

The total cultivable area under the organization is 11.72 lakh hectares. PCA Kharif is 4.86 lakh hectare and Rabi is 4.22 hectare. Irrigation facility is provided through 15 blocks in 12 districts (Kasganj, Etah, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Auraiya, Kannauj, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Fatehpur and Kaushambi) under Ramganga organization.

In addition to irrigation, water is also made available for non-agricultural works and drinking water at various places of the lower Ganga canal system as follows:-

For agricultural work Narora Atomic Power Plant Aligarh 100 cusec, Panki Power House Kanpur 17.80 cusec, NTPC Dibiyapur 13 cusec, Ordnance Factory, Kanpur 08 cusec, Kanpur Fertilizer 15 cusec, GAIL Pata, Auraiya 17 cusec, Field Gun Factory Kanpur 05 cusec, Ghatampur Thermal Power Plant (Neyveli Lignite) 80 cusec and Jawaharpur Thermal Thermal Power Plant 38 cusec water supply.
For drinking water, 21 cusecs is supplied to Benajhabar Kanpur city, 10 cusecs to Gujaini Water Works, 50 cusecs to district Firozabad and 245 cusecs (proposed) for rural drinking water of district Firozabad.
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