WATER FOR PUNJAB
An immense irrigation project in the Punjab, costing... £4,000,000, is being prepared by the Government experts' at Simla.' It is designed to irrigate 1,500,000 acres of land along the banks ■of the River Chenab, below its junction with the Jhelim. The scheme includes the construction of great weirs across" both rivers.' The main crops to benefit will be cotton and wheat. It is anticipated that after, ten years there will be a return of 7 per cent, oh the cost.. .. . ■ ■ . ...
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 21, 24 July 1936, Page 10
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83WATER FOR PUNJAB Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 21, 24 July 1936, Page 10
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