The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the foreign aid arm of the Japanese government, will help the Punjab Irrigation and Drainage Authority (PIDA) improve the irrigation system in the province to enhance agricultural productivity, PIDA general manager Saeed Zahid Ali has said. Ali told a JICA delegation at a meeting here on Monday that Area Water Boards as well as Farmers’ Organisations had been constituted for six main canal commands. He said that an organisation had started working at the Lower Chenab Canal’s East circle for a second year while another had completed one year at the West circle.
The general manager said that under the Punjab Irrigation System Improvement Programme, 20 of 100 training programmes planned at the Lower Chenab Canal circle had been held, 44 of 103 planned at the Bahawalnagar Canal circle had been held, while 22 of 116 at the Dera Jat Canal circle had been completed.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 21st, 2011.
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