GANDHINAGAR: Four years after it was launched, the state government has got a "post-feasibility study" of the controversial Sujalam Sufalam project prepared to silence its critics. Prepared jointly by the Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore and Water Resources Engineering and Management Institute (WREMI), Vadodara, it comes even as a Planning Commission document on the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12) refuses to include it in the list of projects it has approved. Submitted to the state water resources department in June this year, the two-volume report technically examines each area where the project is being implemented separately. It concludes that the project was needed in order to benefit 2.35 lakh hectare (ha), mainly of north Gujarat, in order to help recharge the area in which the Sujalam Sufalam canal passes through. Starting at Kadana dam, water will also be pumped into it from the Narmada main canal at four different points for this. The report says 840 million cubic metres (MCM) of water will be available per year to the canal. Of this, 615 MCM will go into recharging the area surrounding it. And, once fully operational, water levels will rise by 0.25 metre per annum in districts where the unlined canal goes