Field Visit for Civil 3rd year.
A visit of Civil Third-year students was conducted at Sharda Barrage, Lakhimpur Khiri, Mundi, UP.
Department of Civil Engineering conducted the field visit of Civil Engineering Third year students to Sharda Barrage, Lakhimpur Khiri, Mundi, UP on 23rd September-2022. There are 41 students in civil Third year who visited Sharda Barrage, coordinated by Mr Shubhendu Mishra and Ms Nitika Singh. Sharda Barrage is one of the largest barrages that comes under The Sharda Sahayak Pariyojana aims at irrigating a culturable command area of 16,770 km2 with 70 per cent irrigation intensity. The 258.80 km long feeder channel takes off from the right bank of Lower Sharda Barrage with a discharge of 650 m3/s. Supplies are then fed into the different branches of the Sharda canal system, namely, the Dariyabad branch, the Barabanki branch, the Haidergarh branch, the Rae Bareli branch and the Purva branch. Mr Ambikesh Mishra (Assistant Engineer) gives the knowledge about how water is diverted from the Karnali (Ghaghra) at Girjapur through the Sharda Sahayak link canal of 28.4 km length for over eight months in the year during the lean season, but it indents on Sharda supplies during the monsoon between July and October when the Karnali carries a lot of silt. It was constructed under the leadership of Sarbir Singh.
This Tour also gives Practical knowledge about various distributaries along with the meandering River.
