Now, only Rs 6 crore compensation for the land in the coastal area of the barrage remains to be paid.
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The Jamuni irrigation scheme, which has been stalled for five years, has now started to pick up speed. Due to the compensation dispute and the lack of electric doors in the barrage, there is a risk that this plan will remain incomplete.
Suresh Prasad Sah, Engineer and Information Officer of Narayani Irrigation Management Office, said that since the Irrigation Department had called for tenders for the door, a company had already started the design work of the door after signing the tender agreement. Now only 6 million rupees compensation for the land in the coastal area of the barrage remains to be paid .
"After the rains, the work of constructing the doors and the remaining compensation distribution will also start," he said, "The contractor company has recently designed and carried out the construction of electric doors and staff housing in the barrage area." Engineer Sah said that while there is an obligation to distribute compensation for Kattha 10 dhur land, now it is only for 6 bighas. The basic structure of the irrigation scheme has been built on the border of Adarsh Kotwal Rural Municipality and Pachrauta Municipality of Bara with the grant of the Government of Nepal and loan from the World Bank. 35 crore rupees have been spent on the plan.
6 years ago, the Jamuni Irrigation Scheme was started as an ambitious scheme to provide year-round irrigation facilities to the farmers of Bara East and Rautahat West. The barrage has been constructed about 5 years ago. But the installation of electric doors in the barrage has not started yet.
After the construction of the barrage, the construction of the embankment at a cost of 12 million rupees was also started 3 years ago . But only 80 percent of the embankment construction work has been completed.
After taking a stance of not allowing the work to proceed until the landowners of the submerged area get the compensation, the construction of the embankment has also remained incomplete after the 'stay order' was passed by the Birgunj High Court last May. For the purpose of water storage in the barrage, the embankment under construction to the north of the barrage has about 17 bighas of land belonging to more than 100 local farmers. After the
scheme comes into operation, water will be available for twelve months from block number 11 to 15 of Gandak Canal. From which the farmers of the eastern part of Bara and the western part of Rautahat will be benefited.
In operation since 1971, water usually does not reach the last 4 blocks of the Gandak Canal. Jamuni Irrigation Scheme has been constructed as an alternative to that.
Barrage and its structures are being constructed through Narayani Irrigation Management Office Birgunj. Under the plan, the construction of the barrage and other structures started in the year 2072/73 and the construction of the barrage has been completed in the year 2076/77.
contractor Kumar/Ashish/Amar JV Kalimati constructed the barrage at 224 crore 51 thousand 145 rupees 10 paise (including value added tax) in this contract of 31 crore rupees, which was 30 percent billed.
DS construction services started the construction of 1 thousand 100 meters long embankment for 2 years at a cost of 12 million rupees . Jamuni Barrage has a total of 13 gates . There are 4 gates at the bottom of the river. 2 doors will be head regulators .
After the canal becomes operational, 7,500 liters of water will be available in the canal per second. In normal condition, 25,000 liters of water per second is flowing in Jamuni River. When there is a flood, more than 400,000 liters of water per second flows into this river.
Since Jamuni Barrage itself is a big project, the gates of the barrage have to be opened during the annual flood due to more water flowing in the river. At that time, 3 to 4 manpower per door is needed to open the door in the traditional way.
But if there are electric doors, the barrage doors will open immediately after switching on . As a result, the human and material risk in the barrage will be reduced. If the gate is not opened in time when there is a flood, there is a strong possibility that the river will take its final course. In such a situation, the barrage will be useless and there may be a great loss of people's wealth in the surrounding villages. Under the
plan, there is a plan to drain the canal water from the Jamuni river into the Gandak canal, which is about 500 meters south of the dam. Out of which irrigation facilities will be available on a total of 9,500 hectares of land, 1,200 hectares in Bara and 8,300 hectares in Rautahat.
