Completion Report and Schedules Triple Canal Project 1917

dated 18th December 1916 conveying the approval of the Government of India to the closing of fhe construction estimate of the Triple Canal Project with effect from the 31st March 1917 I am directed by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor to submit for tile information of the Government of India the Completion Report in 4 volumes with Schedules and Index Map of the project as prescribed in Publ [...] tion the important part played by Sir Thomas' of Higham a' leading member of the Indian Irrigation Commission of 1901 in the determination of the main feature of the Project ; yet it seems clear that Sir Thomas Higham was the first to suggest and to insist upon the importance of the idea of delivering the water drawn from the River Jhelum into theRiver Chenab at a point upstream of the weir acr [...] Wilson drew attention to the possbility of using the surplus winter flow of the Rivers Jhelum and Chenab for the irrigation of the Lower Bari Doab ; but did not indicate the manner of such utilization beyond suggesting that a weir might be built across the River Chenab downstream of its confluence with the Jhelum and that a canal might be led from this weir across the tail end of the liechna [...] insisted that uhlesi the water from the River Jhelum could be delivered into the River Chenab at a point upstream of the Rhanki Weir or at a point downstream of that weir but high enough to permit of substituting from 3 000 to 4 000 cosecs of winter water derived from the Jhelum for a similar supply derived by the Lower Chenab Canal from the Chenab the idea of irrigating the Lower Bari Doab w [...] Purves in paragraph 33 of his Report remarks that it has appeared unwise to infringe the semi-rights of the (Lower) Jhelum Colony in the use of a bountiful water-supply ; and that in consequence it has been found necessary to supplement the winter water-supply of the River Jhelum by means of artificial storage in the Wnlar Lake in the summer.