The drinking water needs of UK and UP will be met by the Jamrani Dam project

Jamrani Dam Project will open the fortunes of four districts of Uttarakhand and UP

Nainital: Jamrani Dam Project will meet the drinking water needs of lakhs of population of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. There will also be irrigation of large areas of farming. The government will also get revenue from power generation, fisheries and water sports.

After a long wait of 49 years, the Jamrani Dam project will now get off the ground. Afcons Infrastructure Limited will construct the Jamrani Dam project at a cost of Rs 2021.99 crore. The construction of the dam will start after the monsoon season. The Jamrani Dam Project will meet the drinking water needs of millions of people in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. There will also be irrigation of large areas of farming. The government will also get revenue from power generation, fisheries and water sports. The Irrigation Department has completed the paperwork to deliver water from Jamrani Dam to Bareilly and Rampur districts of UP. Just waiting for the work to be done on the ground.

Jamrani Dam Project will widen and renovate the canals to meet the irrigation and drinking water needs of Uttarakhand and UP. Rs 400 crore will be spent on building the canals. 13 tehsils of four districts of UP and Uttarakhand will benefit from the construction of the dam. Irrigation supplies will be available to Baheri and Mirganj of Bareilly district of UP, Bilaspur, Milak, Rampur and Swar tehsils of Rampur district. Bareilly and Rampur districts will get 61 million cubic meters of water. This will irrigate 1,15,582 hectares of land in 684 villages of UP and 60,869 landholders will be benefited. In Uttarakhand, water will reach Haldwani, Lalkuan and Nainital of Nainital district, Bajpur, Gadarpur, Kichha and Sitarganj of Udham Singh Nagar district. Both the districts will get 38.6 million cubic meters of water. 34,720 hectares of land in 368 villages of both the districts will be irrigated and 8320 landholders will be benefited.

Gaulawar feeder will be widened
Water for Rampur and Bareilly of UP will go through Gaulawar feeder. For this, widening work of 16 km long Goulawar feeder will be done from Kathgodam to Century Paper Mill (Lalkuan). This work is estimated to cost more than Rs 100 crore. It is proposed to increase the capacity of Goulawar feeder by one and a half times. At present the capacity of Gaulawar feeder is 15 cumec, which will be increased to 24 cumec.

Water will reach Bareilly from Paha feeder
Water is to be supplied from Paha feeder to meet the irrigation and drinking water needs of Bareilly district of UP. For this, an eight and a half kilometer long canal will be rebuilt from Century Paper Mill to Nagla. Its capacity will be increased to one and a half times. Water will be drained from Nagla to Bareilly district via Kichha Barrage.

History of Jamrani Dam Project

1975 – DPR of the dam received administrative approval from the Planning Commission.
1981 – Construction of Gaula Barrage, 40.5 km canal construction, 244 km canal improvement.
1989 – Approval of phase two of Jamrani Dam from the Technical Advisory Committee of the Central Water Commission.
2018 – Forest Clearance Stage One, Interstate MoU between Uttarakhand and UP
2019 – Phase 2 approval from Technical Advisory Committee of Central Water Commission, environmental clearance, approval from National Mission for Clean Ganga.
2022 – Modi government included in PM Agricultural Irrigation Scheme.
2023 – Forest stage two clearance in January, PIB approval in March, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 25 approved the inclusion of Jamrani scheme under PMKSYAIBP.
2024 – Dhami government released Rs 710 crore for the works related to the dam, issued a tender of Rs 2024 crore for the construction of the dam, Afcons Infrastructure got the contract to build the dam, Webcos company got the work of making town plan at the rehabilitation site. Assigned, Section 19 after getting approval from the Secretary RevenuePath opened for rehabilitation and compensation distribution.