The Haryana Government has forwarded a Rs 666.6 crore Mewat canal project to the Central Water Commission for appraisal to supply water for irrigation and drinking purposes in Mewat. An official spokesman here today said while there was a plan to construct four dams on the Ghaggar river and its tributaries, one such dam, Kaushalya Dam costing Rs 217 crore, had already been completed. The Kaushalya Dam will help in augmentation of drinking water supply in Panchkula district. The Haryana Urban Development Authority has already laid the pipeline to supply its water and the construction work of a treatment plant is under progress. He said the other three dams included Renuka, Kishau and Lakhwar Vyasi. The state government has taken up the issue of their construction with the Central Government. The government has got declared the Renuka Dam as a national project and the state government has also got Rs 25 crore deposited for the same. He said during the tenure of present government since March 2005, with the assistance of NABARD, 652 schemes of construction of new canals, expansion of old canals, improvement of water courses and construction of drains to control floods had been completed and work was in progress on 179 other such schemes. He said to meet the growing demand of water of the industrial towns of Gurgaon, Manesar, Bahadurgarh, Kharkhauda and Jhajjar, a National Capital Region Water Supply Channel costing Rs 322 crore had been constructed. He said with a view to expand irrigation facilities in southern Haryana, the capacity of pump houses of lift irrigation schemes was being increased at a cost of Rs 51.40 crore and the work would be completed by March 2013. The capacity of Jawahar Lal Nehru Feeder has been increased from 1,500 cusecs to 2,500 cusecs. An area of 400 sq km along the feeder has seepage of water, therefore there is a proposal to set up shallow tubewells on both sides of the feeder and their water would be taken to the feeder thus, saving 4,000 hectares of land of eight villages from the problem of seepage.