barrage

TAUNSA BARRAGE;

Taunsa barrage is located 20 km southeast of taunsa sharif city on the river indus in  the punjab. The taunsa barrage was completed in 1958 and it has been identified as the barrage with the higest  priority for reabilition. It requires urgent measure to a avoid servere economic and social impacts on the lives of million of poor farmers through interruption of irrigation on two million acres 8,000 km and drinking water in the rural areas of southern punjab benefiting several million farmers.The project was designed to ensure irrigation of the cultivated lands in the area of the muzaffargarh and dera ghazi khan tehsil canals,and through the taunsa panjnad links canal the supplements the water supply to punjnad headworks canal. 

GUDDU BARRAGE;

Guddu barrage  is a barrage across river indus near Kashmore in pakistan.The barrage wads completed in 1962. At the time of its construction it has maximum design discharge of 1.2 million cubic feet per second 34,000m/s. It is a gate controlled barrage type barrage with a navigation lock.The barrage has 64 bays,each 60 feet wide. The maximum flood level height of guddu barrage is 26 feet.It controls irrigation supplies to 2.9 million acres 12,000km of agricultural lands in the jacobabad larkana and sukkur  districts of sindh and the naseerabad districts of baluchistan. The cost of the project was 474.8 million rupees.It feeds ghotki feeder begari feeder desert and pat feeder canals..........