In fact, there is at least one scheme, the Lower Chenab Canal in the Punjab, which, on the basis of the figures for 1934-35, the latest available, actually irrigated nearly two and one-third million acres. or about 440,000 acres more than the area actually irrigated by the Sukkur Barrage canals in the same period. There were six other schemes each of which watered over 1,000,000 acres that year and severa) which closely approached that figure. The Sutlej Valley project alone, which 1s among the great schemes just mentioned, serves an area exceeding the total artable acreage in Egypt and the 3 Sudan.
The Sarda Canal in the United Provinces commands an area equal to that acreage.
In length of waterways many Indian schemes are remarkable. Here the Sukkur Barrage system leads with its [6,500 miles of main canals, branches, distributaries and minors; but the Cauvery Delta system is only 1,100 miles shorter, while four other systems total over 3,000 miles each.
India also has many gigantic dams. The Lloyd dam at Bhatgarh in the; Bombay Presidency contains 21.500,- 000 cubic feet of masonry, and in this respect surpasses the famous dam at Assouan in Egypt Though about
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