Jaipur, July 24 -- The flood gate of the 315.5 RL meter huge Bisalpur dam - the source of drinking water to Jaipur, Ajmer and Tonk districts- opened after being water level rose upto the brim Thursday evening.
Local Uniara - Deoli MLA Rajendra Gurjar and Tonk District Collector Kalpana Agrawal have performed ceremonial puja of the SCADA System of control and data monitoring before switching on the control to open the gate.
One of the total 18 flood gates (No. : 10) was opened to one meter height at 05:00PM this evening. Initially 6000 cusecs of water was being released into the down stream Banas river to maintain the maximum permissible water level at 315.5 RL MTR.
Prior to opening of the gate the denizens in the 54 villages along the b...