The first phase of the much awaited Saurashtra-Narmada Avataran Irrigation Yojana (Sauni Yojana) has been launched at Sanosara in Gujarat.
According to information available on the website of the Gujarat government, SAUNI Yojana was launched to divert one MAFt excess over flowing flood water of Narmada to 10 dams and reservoirs of Rajkot, Jamnagar and Morbi.
The excess over flowing flood water of Narmada will be distributed to 115 reservoirs of 11 districts of Saurashtra through total 1,126 km long four link pipelines benefitting 10,22,589 acre land.
As per the information on the Gujarat government website, the water will pass through the following links:
Link 1: From Machhu-II dam of Morbi district to Sani Dam of Jamanagar District: having carrying capacity of 1200 cusecs, 30 reservoirs of Rajkot, Morbi, Devbhoomi Dwarka and Jamanagar Districts will be filled and 2,02,100 acre area will be benefitted. The works for about 57.67 Km long pipeline of initial reach of this link are awarded and are under progress.
Link 2: Limbdi Bhogavo-II Dam of Surendranagar District to Raidi Dam of Amreli District: having carrying capacity of 1050 cusecs, 17 reservoirs of Bhavnagar, Botad and Amreli Districts and area of 274700 acres will be benefitted. The works for about 51.28 Km long pipeline of initial reach of this link are awarded and are under progress.
Link 3: From Dholidhaja Dam of Surendranagar District to Venu-I Dam of Rajkot District: having carrying capacity of 1200 cusecs, 28 reservoirs of Rajkot, Jamanagar, Dev bhoomi Dwarka, Porbandar, Morbi and Surendranagar Districts and 198067 acre area will be benefitted. The works for about 66.30 Km long pipeline of initial reach of this link are awarded and are under progress.
Link 4: From Limbdi Bhogavo-II Dam of Surendranagar District to Hiran-II Irrigation scheme of Junagadh: having carrying capacity of 1200 cusecs , 40 reservoirs of Rajkot, Surendranagar, Junagadh, Porbandar, Gir Somnath, Amreli and Botad Districts and area of 3,47,722 acre will be benefitted.