CHANDIGARH, May 23 -- Haryana Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini said that the State Government is committed to ensuring adequate irrigation water reaches every field. For this purpose, the Irrigation Department should form farmer groups and construct community tanks for every 10 acres or more of agricultural land. These tanks will be filled with canal water, and irrigation will be carried out through micro-irrigation systems. The Government will provide 85 percent subsidy for the construction of such tanks, said Sh. Nayab Singh Saini.
The Chief Minister said this while chairing a review meeting of the Irrigation and Water Resources Department's five-year action plan under Haryana Vision-2047 held at the Civil Secretariat on Saturday. He...