Mandal dam will end agrarian crisis: Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das

Jamshedpur | Sunday | 6th January, 2019

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So they are teaming up against one honest person,” Das said.Notably, the Mandal dam project was initiated in 1972 during undivided Bihar and in 1984-85 acquired 2200 hectare of land covering 15 villages. In last four years, we have brought over two lakh hectare of land under irrigation. Now that is changing under the leadership of PM Modi,” Das said.Das added that from April, state government will also start giving six hour uninterrupted power through a separate feeder to farmers. In February 2018, the Centre granted this project Stage-I clearance (in principle go ahead with certain conditions). Expenditure amounting to Rs 769.09 crore had already been incurred till date..