Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to lay the foundation stone for the extension, renovation and modernisation of Lower Bhavani Project (LBP) system, to be taken up at Rs. 933.10 crore, during his visit to Coimbatore on Thursday.
The LBP system comprises the LBP main canal that receives water from the Bhavani Sagar Dam and runs for 201 km irrigating 2.07 lakh hectares in the districts of Erode, Tiruppur and Karur. Also, the main canal feeds Arakkankottai and Thadapalli channels at Kodiveri anicut, while the Kalingarayan canal that runs for 90.5 km also comes under the system.
The total length of the system is 395 km and the objective of the project is to provide the right quantum of water at the right time for the total cultivable command area (CCA) by effective water utilisation and adopting conservancy strategies.
A senior engineer at the Public Works Department of Water Resources Organisation told The Hindu that the project is to be executed as six packages, first package…