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Isarda Dam deadline set for June 2025

Jaipur: Despite chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma's directive to complete Isarda Dam by June 2025, residents of Sawai Madhopur and Dausa will only begin receiving water by Diwali this year—while those on Jaipur's northern fringes may have to wait until 2029. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Officials from Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) and Water Resources Department (WRD) told TOI that water supply from the dam hinges on this year's monsoon performance in the Bisalpur and Isarda catchment areas. "We are trying our best to complete the dam before monsoon sets in. It is to ensure that we can store the water from the rainfall from this year itself. It will also store surplus flow from the Bisalpur Dam, 90 km away. Post-construction, a few ancillary works will remain, but we plan to complete them within months," said a WRD official. Meanwhile, the PHED officials have started building infrastructure to supply water from the Isarda Dam to the households of 1,079 villages and 5 cities in Dausa and 177 villages and one city in Sawai Madhopur. Officials said more than 85% of the infrastructure building work has been completed and the remaining would get over within the next two to three months. A PHED engineer from Dausa said, in Dausa city PHED needs 7-8 MLD water to cater to the population of 73,000 – presently connected with the Bisalpur supply. For the entire city, they would need around 10-11 MLD water. "At present, we get 2.2 MLD from Bisalpur and 0.8 MLD from other resources. It means we can provide only around 3 MLD water against the present requirement of 7-8 MLD. That is the reason why Dausa residents get PHED-supplied water only once a week. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Water supply from the Isarda Dam would boost the water requirements of Dausa and Swai Madhopur districts," the engineer added. WRD has started construction of infrastructure to channel 55 million cubic metres (CMC) of drinking water to the Ramgarh Lake. "Although the deadline for this project is four years, we will try to complete the project by Nov-Dec 2028," said a WRD engineer.