According to the agreement, the Indian side is supposed to give 850 cusecs of water to the canal, but currently it is giving only 550 cusecs on average.
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Farmers dependent on the Gandak canal system have faced problems in planting after India did not provide water as per the agreement. Although rice seeds are ready in the fields of most of the farmers, planting has been delayed due to lack of water in the canal. Especially the farmers of Bara and Rautahat have faced problems in planting.
According to the Gandak agreement between Nepal and India, the Indian side is supposed to give 850 cusecs of water to the canal, but currently it has given only 550 cusecs of water on average.
Manoj Kumar Patel, head of Narayani Irrigation Management Office, said that this year, although the Indian side has given water at the scheduled time, it has not given enough for planting. "According to the agreement, from the beginning, India should have given 850 cusecs of water," he said, "but this year, from June 13 to 550 cusecs and from June 19 to 23, it gave 850 cusecs of water as per the agreement." From June 24, violating the agreement, it again gave an average of 550 cusecs of water. Information officer and engineer of
office, Suresh Sah, says that the head of the Indian two branch canal, Mahendra Choudhary, was formally informed by telephone about giving water less than the contract. "We have requested the Indian side to implement the agreement honestly," he said, "Due to the lack of water in the canal, there is a delay in planting depending on the canal system, especially in Bara and Rautahat." He said that the technical team of the office, which was not present on the ground, inspected from Jagarnathpur in Puchhar to Bagmati river in Rautahat, where the technical team was not present on site, and they tried to make the water flow in the canal as complete as possible.
According to the Gandak agreement, the Indian side should release 850 cusecs of water in the canal from June 15 for paddy and from January 10 for wheat. The Indian side releases water into the canal from the barrage built on the Nepal-India border at Bhainsalotan in Nawalparasi. After traveling 92 km in India, this canal enters Nepal from Jankitola in Jagarnathpur Rural Municipality of Parsa.
The length of the Gandak Canal divided into 15 blocks in Parsa, Bara and Rautahat is 81 km towards Nepal. Gandak Barrage is constructed by India itself and operated by the Indian side itself. He has built a canal structure to take more water from the barrage to Indian land than to Nepal.
In 1975 and 1976, the Government of India handed over the Gandak Canal to the Government of Nepal. Despite the goal of irrigating 37,400 hectares of land in three districts namely Parsa, Bara and Rautahat from the Gandak canal, India has not given 850 cusecs of water to Nepal as per the agreement, showing some problem every year.
Kisan Hakhit Sangharsh Samiti Parsa Secretary Prithvi Sah Kanu says that the Gandak Canal has given relief to the farmers of all the three districts when the sky is not raining in Madhesh province, but this year the farmers who depend on the canal system have a problem in planting due to the lack of water in the canal.
