Mahakali Irrigation Project Third Phase Faces Water Supply Issues Due to Indian Stance

Kanchanpur. Structures to provide irrigation facilities to five thousand hectares of land are ready from the third phase of the Mahakali Irrigation Project. The 28-kilometer main canal from Brahmadev to Phuleli in Shuklaphanta Municipality has been constructed for years. Fourteen branch canals have been constructed to deliver water to the farmers' fields in the area where the main canal was built, and eight branch canals are in the final stage of construction.

Although structures to provide irrigation facilities to five thousand hectares of land are ready in the said area, the canal has not been operational for years since its construction because the Indian side has not released water into the canal from Tanakpur. Ganesh Marasini, Project Director of the third phase of the Mahakali Irrigation Project, said that the farmers here have not been able to get irrigation facilities even though the canal has been built because India has not released water into the canal from Tanakpur.