Nitish Kumar inspected the Kamla dam in the Madhubani district.
Patna:
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar inspected the Kamla dam in Madhubani district on Wednesday and asked officials to prepare a plan to convert it to a dam, which would increase irrigation capacity and help farmers in the country. north of Bihar and the Mithilanchal region.
Nitish Kumar visited the dam built on the Kamla River with Minister of Water Resources Sanjay Kumar Jha, Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar and a host of other officials and engineers.
An additional 23,788 acre irrigation capacity will be created in the command area after the Kamla dam is converted to a dam, a statement said.
A weir is a low dam or small barrier built across a stream or river to slightly raise the water level on the upstream side.
Mr. Kumar also inspected the Jaynagar and Naruvar embankments.
While inspecting the embankment at 1.3 km and 1.4 km at Jaynagar along the Nepalese border, Nitish Kumar ordered officials to increase its height, in addition to carrying out sheet piling to strengthen it.
Inspecting the construction of the Naruvar embankment on Kamla-Balan, the chief minister said that steel sheet piles would strengthen the embankment and also protect the hamlets.
located nearby.
He also ordered officials to perform earth backfilling to further strengthen the Naruvar embankment.
Madhubani district magistrate Nilesh Devre informed the chief minister that compensation had been paid to people whose homes were damaged due to the rupture of the Naruvar embankment last year.
Nitish Kumar also ordered officials to maintain adequate storage of materials in important places to better and more effectively apply flood prevention measures.
