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The city of Rajkot lies in semi-arid region. The rainfall is low and scanty, the average being 500 mm. For the last 3 years, the rainfall is even less than average and the city is dependent upon the ground water form the bore wells drilled in the Wakaner region, 80 kms away from the city. As there are no permanent surface water sources nearby the city, the only permanent source is to avail the water from Sardar Sarovar Project. For this a Maliya Branch Canal Project is planned, which is under progress. In this project the Narmada Water from Sardar Soravar will reach through Saurashtra main canal upto Maliya and from Maliya to Hadala through canal and from Hadala to Rajkot by pipeline.
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After the completion of Sardar Sarovar project, sufficient quantity of water will be available, which will help to solve the water problem of the Rajkot city a great extent.
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8.5 million people of Saurashtra region will get water for domestic use and 2196 million sqmts land will get water for irrigation after the completion of Sardar Sarovar Project
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Sardar Sarovar Project is a terminal dam on River Narmada. Through this Dam, Gujarat and Rajasthan have proposed to utilize their share of allocated water. An annual irrigation of 18.65 lakhs ha and hydel power generation of 1450 MW are proposed through SSP.
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