PM Modi launches Rs 3,866-crore Mohanpura irrigation project in MP
PM Narendra Modi launches Mohanpura irrigation project in MP Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Rs 3,866-crore Mohanpura Irrigation Project in Rajgarh district in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. The project includes a dam and a canal system that will benefit 727 villages in the state. The Prime Minister gave credit to the labourers “who worked hard with tools and machines, sweating it out day and night”. “I have just done the formality of launching the project by pressing the button, but its actual launch was done when they toiled hard for it,” he said. It would irrigate 1.25 lakh hectares of land, he said, adding that it would also provide drinking water to over 400 villages. “It is a great service to women and sisters who face lots of difficulties in fetching water from long distances,” he said. -PTC News
