19
May
Chandigarh (Gurpreet Singh): After decades of waiting, canal water has finally reached the fields of Punjab’s Kandi belt. Under the leadership of CM Bhagwant Singh Mann, the Kathgarh Lift Irrigation Scheme is transforming a region long marked by water scarcity and agricultural uncertainty. Linked to the Bist Doab Canal, the project is delivering assured irrigation to areas that had remained beyond reach for over three decades. For generations, farmers in this semi-hilly terrain relied on erratic rainfall and rapidly depleting ground water. Rocky soil and uneven topography made tubewell irrigation largely unviable, leaving vast stretches vulnerable to drought and crop…