Justify multi-purpose projects play a vital role in the life of Indian people
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1. Irrigation Facility
Extension of irrigation facility is one of the important objectives and advantage of multipurpose projects. These projects can stimulate the agricultural productivity for meeting the growing requirement of food and raw materials required for increasing non-farm activities.
2. Flood Control:
Another important objective of such projects is to control the occurrence of floods creating havocs on the economy
3. Generating Electricity:
Multi-purpose projects help to generate hydro-electricity on a large scale basis, which is very much important for the development of industry.
4. Navigation:
Such projects can create navigation facility in the country by developing ferrying services for transportation, raise fleet capacity and thereby can reduce the traffic load on rail and road transport.
5. Development of Industry and Employment Generation:
Such projects can create a favourable climate for the development of industry by offering the facilities like cheaper power, better water transport, availability of raw materials at cheaper rates for agro-based industries etc