राप्ती नदी
Tulsipur (Dang), November 10.
A total of 48 kilometers of embankments have been constructed along the Rapti River by the Irrigation and Water Resources Management Project, Lamahi, Dang.
According to Khumananda Oli, Information Officer of the project, this has reclaimed and protected 1,440 hectares of arable land. He stated that out of the total 157.6 km length of the West Rapti River—stretching from the confluence in Dang and Pyuthan to the Indian border in Banke—48 km of embankments have been built so far.
In the last fiscal year alone, 5.61 km of embankments were constructed along the West Rapti, reclaiming 168 hectares of land. Emergency river control works worth Rs 4,323,555 in Jethangaun, Gadhwa–6, and Rs 1,288,287 in Ultisota Khola, Gadhwa–3, situated along the banks of the West Rapti River, have already been completed. Under the Praganna Irrigation system, multi-million-rupee embankment contracts have also been completed across various sections on the right bank of the Rapti River as well as the Raniyapur-Chhingatpur area.
Currently, contracts worth Rs 1.221 billion (Rs 1,22,10,51,000) have been successfully completed in the Dang and Banke sections of the West Rapti River. In the Lamahi–5 Sonarpur section, 70 percent physical progress has been achieved on a contract worth Rs 101,166,964, while 48.70 percent progress has been achieved on a contract worth Rs 53,238,000 in the Gadhwa–1 Adehari to Jethangaun section.
Similarly, 70 percent physical progress has been achieved on a contract worth Rs 41,525,000 in Khulla Jhagadya, Rapti Sonari–7, Banke, and 75 percent progress has been achieved on a contract worth Rs 8,242,092 in Dhalaiya, Rapti Sonari–6.
To protect agricultural land and human settlements from floods in the Rapti River, construction of a 15.996 km embankment from the main intake at Bhalubwang to Saklahi has already been completed. There is a target to complete a total of 23 km of embankment sections in the future.
— RSS
