Only a Barrage Can Save! - The Ganga: Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent - page 100

Photograph 7.8 Feeder Canal under excavation during monsoon of 1970
Photograph 7.9 Prestressed concrete girders of Pakur road bridge being placed over the piers
in early part of 1975. Photographs 7.10, 7.11, 7.12 and 7.13 show river Ganga
on both upstream and downstream of Farakka Barrage and Feeder Canal flowing
downstream of Head Regulator.
The Feeder Canal was commissioned on 24th April 1975 and trials started from
that date. The project was formally dedicated to the nation on 21st May 1975 by
Jagjivan Ram, India's Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation, in the presence, inter