IRRIGATION IN INDIA
WORLD’S GREATEST WORK. REGULATING THE INDUS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association DELHI, August 24. The Governor of Bombay inaugurated the greatest irrigation scheme in the world when he laid the foundation stone of the Lloyd barrage, at Sukkur. The huge dam will regulate the Indus, and distribute its water through seven great canals and miles of distributing channels over an area of 8,000,GOO acres, which are now chiefly deeert. Tho project was designed, and will be carried out, by the engineers of the Public Works Department and the Government of Bombay. The Bombay Government will meet the whole cost of th» project, which is estimated at £10.000,000.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11660, 26 October 1923, Page 5
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