Tillari water supply to Goa to resume this month

PANAJI: Chief minister Pramod Sawant held a meeting in

Panaji

on Thursday with

water resource department

(WRD) engineer Shrikant Patil, and other officials, who informed the CM that there was no shortage of water in the state.


The officials said that currently water from

Tillari canal

from Maharashtra has been stopped to Goa due to landslides in August and September. They said that the clearing work of the debris has been undertaken by the government of Maharashtra and is likely to be completed by the second week of December. They further informed that this work is being monitored by executive engineers of Goa in-charge of the canal on a daily basis.

Project authorities in Maharashtra have assured that they will release the required quantity of water for irrigation and drinking water purpose to Goa by the second week of December.

The WRD officials further stated that the Tillari Dam is full to its capacity indicating that there was no shortage of water. Patil informed that because of the work to remove landslide debris in the canal, as a temporary arrangement, the Goa authorities are pumping water from Sal bandhara and bringing it to Amthane dam which in turns supplies water to the

Assonora

water treatment plant. The officials said that the Amthane dam has got a minimum of 20 days stock of water and there is no shortage of water in Goa.

The Tillari irrigation project is a joint venture of the governments of Goa and Maharashtra. The canal network begins in Maharashtra and enters Goa at Dodamarg. The Tillari irrigation project supplies water to the Assonora water treatment plant directly from the canal and the water from here is supplied to Bardez taluka.