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News: The status and phased implementation roadmap of the Ujh Multipurpose Project (MPP) has been reviwed in Kathua district of Jammu & Kashmir.
About Ujh Multipurpose Project
- It is a multipurpose(Hydropower, Irrigation and Drinking) River valley scheme and is first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Associated river: The proposed project is on the River Ujh, which is one of the main tributaries of River Ravi.
- Generation capacity: It is designed to generate around 186 MW to 212 MW of electricity.
- Features:
- It is expected to provide irrigation to nearly 90,000 hectares of agricultural land in Kathua and Samba districts of Jammu & Kashmir and Pathankot and Gurdaspur districts of Punjab.
- The project will also supply drinking water to Kathua district and provide industrial water availability.
- The project is expected to strengthen agricultural productivity, improve water security, create new opportunities for economic development and contribute to the overall socio-economic progress of the Union Territory.
- It also has an important security and border-management dimension and is backed by the Ministry of Home Affairs to restrict unregulated water flows and plug vulnerable cross-border infiltration routes along the riverbed.
