<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;">Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the SaryuCanal National Project at Balrampur district in Uttar Pradesh yesterday. Theproject will facilitate irrigation to over 14 lakh hectares of land in ninedistricts of eastern Uttar Pradesh benefitting about 29 lakh farmers.  <br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px" />''<br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px" />''Mr Modi said, providing irrigation facilities toevery field and making use of the drainage by the rivers is among the toppriorities of the government. Mr. Modi said, the completion of the Saryu CanalNational Project, which was pending for decades, shows the government's resolveto work hard with noble intentions.<br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px" />''…<br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px" />''Mr Modi said that at the time of the commencementof this project 50 years ago its initial cost was less than 100 crore rupees,but now it has increased to around 10 thousand crore. He said, the lacklusterattitude of the previous governments' was responsible for holding such projectsfor decades.<br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px" />''<br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px" />''The Prime Minister said, his government hasensured that despite the pandemic, the citizens should suffer least. He said,the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna has been extended till Holi next year.</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><o:p /></span></p><br />