PM Modi inaugurates first phase of SAUNI project in Gujarat

August 30, 2016 12:16

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the first phase of Saurashtra Narmada Avataran for Irrigation project in Jamnagar, Gujarat.

The Rs. 12,000 crore project is considered to be an ambitious one for PM Modi, who had announced the project in 2012 when he was the chief minister of Gujarat, to fill up nearly 115 dams of Saurashtra region which faces shortage of water for irrigation and drinking.

"Nearly ten dams of three districts would be filled up with water from Narmada under the project," Rajkot district Collector Vikrant Pandey had said.

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