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SAUNI Yojana

Saurashtra-Narmada Avataran Irrigation Yojana (SauniYojana) has been launched to divert excess over flowing flood water of Narmada allocated to Saurashtra Region.
The excess over flowing flood water of Narmada will be distributed to 115 reservoirs of eleven districts of Saurashtra through total 1126 km long four link pipelines benefitting 10,22,589 acre land.
Prime Minister NarendraModi inaugurated phase-I of the Link-II pipeline canal of the Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) Yojna in Botad district of Gujarat.
While the Link-I canal will take water to 30 dams in Jamnagar and DevbhoomiDwarka districts, the Link-II canal is designed to pump Narmada water in 17 dams spread across Botad, Bhavnagar and Amreli districts.
Unlike traditional irrigation projects, SAUNI is technically a ‘linking’ project, where the water will be filled in irrigation dams that are already equipped with canal network. This network of canals will then help channel water into farms