Chief Minister Raman Singh has assured Chhattisgarh’s farmers that the proposed construction of a dam by the Uttar Pradesh Government on River Kanhar at village Amvaar will not be allowed to harm the interests of the State’s farmers. He said rural citizens will be protected at any cost. Chhattisgarh Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand wrote a letter on behalf of the State Government to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Alok Ranjan.

Dhand in his letter mentioned that as per the agreement, a detailed survey has to be conducted of the villages that are likely to be marooned and compensation has to be paid, till then the construction of Kanhar dam should be stopped. According to the survey of the Uttar Pradesh Government, four villages will be affected by the project in Balrampur-Ramanujganj districts. The four villages are-Jhaara, Kushfar, Semruva and Trishuli.

  According to survey conducted by The Survey Of India, 263.40 hectare land is estimated to be affected, 86 hectare Revenue land, 56.40 hectare private land and 121 hectare forest land.

Dhand said in his letter that the Uttar Pradesh State Government had not sent new survey proposal to the Surguja Collector (Chhattisgarh). He revealed that Rs40 lakh had been set apart by the Uttar Pradesh Government on January 28, 2015 for a new survey. Survey has been started also.

Work is in progress on FRL and FTL lines survey and the villages likely to be submerged by the dam. After the work on survey is completed,  land wi...