Saryu Nahar Project was recently launched.

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• PM Modi inaugurated Rs 9,800 crore Saryu canal project in UP’s Balrampur.

About Saryu canal project in UP’s Balrampur

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently inaugurated the Saryu Canal National Project which will provide assured water for irrigation to over 14 lakh hectares of land and benefit about 29 lakh farmers, mainly in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
• The project has been completed at a cost of over Rs 9,800 crore, out of which more than Rs 4,600 crore was provisioned in the last four years.
• The Saryu canal project also involves interlinking of five rivers — Ghaghara, Saryu, Rapti, Banganga and Rohini –– to ensure optimum usage of water resources of the region.
• The work on the project started in 1978 but due to lack of continuity of budgetary support, interdepartmental coordination and adequate monitoring, it got delayed and was not completed even after nearly four decades.