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The Odisha government on Monday set a July 2025 deadline to complete the Kanpur dam in Keonjhar, following a high-level review in the district's Joda block.
Development Commissioner and Additional Chief Secretary of the water resources department, Anu Garg, announced the timeline during a site inspection on Sunday, stressing the dam's role in irrigating 13,000 hectares this Kharif season and 29,000 hectares post-completion, stated reports from The Times of India.
Initiated two decades ago, the project is the second largest of its kind and will moderate floods in the Baitarani River basin while supplying drinking water and irrigat...