It would take nearly 91 years for the Chhattisgarh water resources department to achieve the ambitious target of irrigating 75 per cent of the gross sown area (GSA) given the pace with which it had been implementing the plan, pointed the report of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India.

Though the water resources department embarked in 2001 on an ambitious target of irrigating 75 per cent of the GSA, the created irrigation potential of the state was increased from 1.32 million hectare (23 per cent of the GSA) as on November 2001 to 1.9 million hectare (33 per cent of the GSA) as on March 2014, the report said. It was tabled in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly late Saturday night after the discussion on the no-confidence motion that concluded at 2 am Sunday..........Read more

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