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The Punjab Irrigation Department (Punjabi, Urdu: محکمہ آبپاشی پنجاب) is a provincial government department responsible for irrigation in the Punjab province of Pakistan. [1] It irrigates 21 million acres (8,500,000 ha) of the agricultural land in the province.
Punjab Irrigation Department; Punjab Khal Panchayat Authority; Q. Quaid-e-Azam Business Park Sheikhupura; S. School education department (Punjab, Pakistan)
The current structure of the barrage was constructed in 1968 and the old barrage (built by the British) has been dismantled. The Punjab Irrigation Department's Sargodha Zone is responsible for the operation of this barrage. Rasul Barrage is used to control water flow in the River Jhelum for irrigation and flood control purposes.
The Punjab Canal Colonies is the name given to parts of western Punjab which were brought under cultivation through the construction of canals and agricultural colonisation during the British Raj. The Punjab underwent an agricultural revolution, with arid subsistence production getting replaced by commerce-oriented production of huge amounts of ...
The Ranjit Sagar Dam, also known as the Thein Dam, is part of a hydroelectric project constructed by the Punjab Irrigation Department on the Ravi River on the border of Union Territory, Jammu and Kashmir and state Punjab. It is located upstream of the Madhopur Barrage at Madhopur. [3]
The ordinance was later adopted as Punjab Khal Panchayat Act on 13 December 2019. [1] After the promulgation of Punjab Khal Panchayat Ordinance on 22 May 2019, the Punjab Irrigation and Drainage Authority Act 1997 was repealed and Punjab Irrigation and Drainage Authority (PIDA) was also abolished along with its Area Water Boards (AWBs) and ...
Muhammad Kazim Ali Pirzada is a Pakistani politician who is currently serving as Provincial Minister of the Punjab Irrigation Department in the Maryam ministry.He is a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab since February 2024 under the PML-N, prior to that he served as a Punjab Assembly member from 2008 to May 2018 and August 2018 to January 2023.
The government of Pakistan built the Tarbela Dam and Mangla Dam and a number of barrages now managed by Punjab Irrigation Department under the Indus Basin Replacement Works. [4] Eight inter-river canals were also built between western and eastern rivers.