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{{Infobox dam
| name = Lower Sharda Barrage
| image = Sharda Dam.jpg
| image_caption = Sharda River near Lower Sharda Barrage
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| dam_crosses = [[Sharda River]]
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| purpose = Irrigation
| location = [[Lakhimpur Kheri District]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]
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| construction_began = 1975
| opening = 1995
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The '''Lower Sharda Barrage''', is a dam nearly 28 km from [[Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh|Lakhimpur]] city in [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]].<ref>http://kheri.nic.in/</ref>

== Construction ==
The Lower Sharda Barrage <ref name="rakesh_tiwary_divide">Indo-Nepal Water Resource Negotiation: Deepening Divide over Border Project - Rakesh Tiwary, South Asia Journal, January - March 2006.</ref><ref name="Barrages_in_India">Design and Construction of selected Barrages in India (1981), Publication number 149, Central Board of Irrigation and Power, Malcha Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.</ref> is constructed on the [[Sarda River|Sharda River]], about 163.5 km downstream of the [[Sarda River#Sharda Barrage .28Upper Sharda Barrage.29 Irrigation Project|Upper Sharda Barrage]].

This project is part of the Sharda Sahayak Pariyojana<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/peoreport/peoevalu/peo_ssp.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=9 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224035608/http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/peoreport/peoevalu/peo_ssp.pdf |archive-date=24 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and primarily depends on water 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 in the leadership of Sarbir Singh.

== Economy ==
The Sharda Sahayak Pariyojana aims at irrigating culturable command area of 16,770 km<sup>2</sup> with 70 per cent irrigation intensity. The 258.80 km long feeder channel takes off from the right bank of Lower Sharda Barrage with discharge of 650 m<sup>3</sup>/s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://irrigation.up.nic.in/dp/ssp.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-05-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160928203752/http://irrigation.up.nic.in/dp/ssp.htm |archivedate=2016-09-28 }}</ref> 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.

Sharda Sahayak Pariyojana provides protective canal irrigation for cultivable area of 2 m ha to lakhs of farmers in 150 development blocks of 16 districts in eastern [[Uttar Pradesh]]. The project was commissioned in 1974, and completed in 2000 with an estimated cost of Rs. 1,300 crore.

== See also ==
* [[Headworks]]
* [[Tide]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Commons category|Sharda Barrage}}
{{Hydrography of Uttar Pradesh}}

[[Category:Barrages in India]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Lakhimpur Kheri district]]
[[Category:Dams in Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Dams completed in 2000]]
[[Category:2000 establishments in Uttar Pradesh]]

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