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2 Land Revenue is of course sustained by the improvement of the culti-
3 vation) ; but the statute labor is furnished by the villagers whose lands are
4 irrigated. Besides these the Khanwa Canal (see para..430 of Second
5 Mitsiv: wainesnnnne de Punjab Report) is maintained in efficient order by
6 ste toolan PavsCh. a yearly expenditure of money, viz. Rupees 23,152
7 in 1854-55 and Rupees 17,785 in 1855-56; so also the Dourana Lun-
8 gana Canal (see para. 431) is similarly maintained. Plans and estimates
9 for Sohag and Kuttora Canals (see para. 431) have been submitted for
10 sanction. A grand project was framed for damming up the Sutlej shortly
11 after the junction of the Beas, thereby securing a permanent head-work
12 for a number of Inundation Canals on éhe right bank of the Sutlej. The
13 plan, though ably conceived and believed to be practicable, would be very ~
14 costly, and would exceed the present available means of the Government.
15 But although much has been done in the Baree Doab, there remain,
16 many old Canals to be re-opened in the Rechna, Chuch, and Sindh
17 Sagur Doabs, that is, in the valleys of the Chenab, Jhelum and Indus.
18 As soon as the great works in hand shall have been completed, sums of
19 money will be devoted to these Canals, which though insignificant indivi-
20 dually are yet most useful, and in the aggregate very important, It was
21 formerly explained that for the old Canals on the right bank of the.
22 Indus (see para. 426 of Second Punjab Report), a
23 Surveying Establishment had been employed.
24 Since that period several small Canals have been cleared out and
25 improved, and a project for re-opening the old Manka Canal, at a cost
26 of Rupées 10,14,392 or £101,439, has been submitted. An Engineer
27 Indus Canals,
28 ' Officer, with a suitable subordinate establishment, costing in all Rupees -
29 8,112 or £811 per annum, is appointed for the supervision’ of the Indus
30 Canals. It is hoped that the day may come when, by means of Inun-
31 dation Canals, which are most highly valued by the people, and can be
32 cheaply and easily constructed, a civilization which once existed,
33 though it has been dormant for many generations, will revive; and when
34 the wilderness, once cultivated, but now overgrown with brushwood, will
35 again wave with crops.
36 94. Passing on from Inundation Canals running from April to Octo-
37 ber, we come to permanent Canals running all the
38 year round. Under this heading the great work is *
39 the new Baree Doab Canal running from the Ravee right down the centre
40 of the tract between that river and the Sutlej from North to South.
41 Permanent Canals.