IMPHAL, April 18: Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh today inspected the Imphal Barrage and Singda Dam and announced that encroachments in the Singda Dam area would be evicted in the first week of May.
During the trip, the Chief Minister addressed a meeting at Irrigation Waste House at Singda after inspecting the dam.
He pledged that the state Government will not remain unruffled over the houses and other structures built by encroachers in the Singda Dam area whose compensations have been paid already.
Saying that the police out-post at the dam site will be inducted with more police personnel so as to ensure proper functioning of the out-post, Ibobi said about 2 lakh siblings will be planted in the catchment area of the dam during the month of May.
The Singda Dam located about 20 km northwest of Imphal was constructed over the Singda river and inaugurated in the year 1995.
The mega project was taken up aimed at supplying water in greater Imphal besides irrigation water in the agricultural fields in Phayeng and Lamsang in Imphal West district.
According to the state IFCD, 10 houses and another five pan shops in Singda village and 13 houses, including one church and two pan shops in Ireng Hill Slope are being built by encroaching the dam area.
The Chief Minister later inspected the Imphal Barrage constructed over the Imphal River at Oinam Sawombung in Imphal West district.
This project was inaugurated in 1984 and started supplying irrigation water until it had stopped working since 2010 after its gates were broken down.
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