government of Pakistan has so far constructed 49 small dams and plans to build eight more in Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Attock and Chakwal areas in order to promote agriculture in these regions.
According to an official of the Ministry of Water and Power, construction of the six small dams is expected to be completed during the current financial year which would help irrigate around 12,310 acres of agricultural land.
The dams include Darmalak Dam (Kohat), Lawaghar and Karak Dam (Karak), Khair Bara Dam (Haripur), Jabba Khattak Dam (Nowshera) and Palai Dam (Charsadda).
“The feasibility study is being done on 11 more dams. Some of them will be built in 2011-12 while others in 2012-13,” he added.
He further said that the 12 dams would be constructed in two phases in all the four provinces with storage capacity of four MAF water. In the first phase Winder and Naulong dams will be constructed in Balochistan, Kurram Tangi in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Darwat and Nai Gaj in Sindh and Ghabir Dam in Punjab.
The provincial government has allocated Rs1 billion for Punjab Agriculture Research Board and also doubled the budget for the improvement of research infrastructure.
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