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<strong>Brahamaputra</strong> <strong>Basin</strong><br />
f) Champamati Irrigation Project: The Champamati Irrigation Project envisages<br />
construction of a barrage across the river Champamati, a northern tributary of the river<br />
Brahmputra at Nanagdolbari near Gurubhasa in Chirag District to provide irrigation to an<br />
area of 24,994 ha annually. Districts Benefitted from this scheme is Kokrajhar. GCA, CCA<br />
and annual irrigation of the project are 30 Th.ha, 17.41 Th.ha and 24.99 Th.ha<br />
respectively.<br />
g) Bordikarai Major Irrigation Project: The project involves construction of Bordikarai<br />
Barrage of length 260.5 m over Dikrai River, a tributary of Kameng, in Sunitpuri District<br />
of Assam. Benefits from Bordikarai Major Irrigation Project include annual irrigation of<br />
34.042 ha areas in Sonitpur District.<br />
h) Kaldiya Medium Irrigation Project: The Kaldiya medium Irrigation Project is being<br />
constructed in Barpeta district of Assam. GCA, CCA and annual irrigation of the project<br />
are 11.085 Th.ha, 9.72 Th.ha and 16.69 Th.ha respectively.<br />
i) Harguti Medium Irrigation Project: Harguti irrigation scheme consists of a barrage across<br />
the river Harguti and a left bank canal system in Kokrajhar district of Assam. This scheme<br />
irrigates annually 5.96 Th.ha areas with CCA of 2.60 Th.ha. Work on the project started<br />
in 1968 and was completed in 1974.<br />
j) Longa Medium Irrigation Project: The project envisages the construction of Longa weir<br />
across the Longa River in Goalpara district. Work on the project started in 1979 and was<br />
completed in 1981.This scheme benefits the Kokrajhar district of Assam with GCA, CCA<br />
and annual irrigation of 3.6010 Th.ha, 3.46 Th.ha and 8.5020 Th.ha respectively.<br />
Some other important medium irrigation projects of Assam include- Dikharu, Borolia, Pahumara,<br />
Bhumki, Rupahi, Dekadong irrigation project. Salient features of the major and medium irrigation<br />
projects of the Brahmaputra basin are listed in the Annexure IV: C.<br />
Major and Medium Irrigation Projects of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Sikkim:<br />
Dzuza irrigation project is the important irrigation project of Nagaland falling in the Brahmaputra<br />
<strong>Basin</strong>. Important features of this project are -<br />
a) Dzuza Medium Irrigation Project: Dzuza medium irrigation project of Nagaland envisages<br />
utilisation of water of Dzuza River by constructing a barrage across the river near village<br />
Hozukha about 30 km from Dimapur in Kohima district of Nagalaud. The project started<br />
in 1996 and approved by Planning Commission in 2005. The project has CCA of 8.11<br />
Th.ha with annual irrigation of 10.14 Th.ha. This scheme benefits the Dimapur and<br />
Kohima district of Nagaland.<br />
Water resources projects falling in Meghalaya and Sikkim, forming the part of the Brahmaputra<br />
basin are basically Hydropower projects.<br />
Other irrigation rojects of Brahmaputra basin are the Lifts and the Extension, Renovation and<br />
Modernisation schemes as shown in the Table 8. For agricultural uses the lift irrigation in local scale<br />
were practiced in the Brahmaputra basin prior to the commencement of the major and medium<br />
irrigation schemes.<br />
At present, there are 4 Lift irrigation schemes in Brahmaputra <strong>Basin</strong>. The salient features of these<br />
projects are given below:<br />
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