Kalidas dam, a part of the small dam project of Sindh, has been inaugurated by Sindh Chief MinisterSyed Murad Ali Shah at Nagarparkar. It is one of the 42 small Dams which are planned to be built in different regions of Sindh to prevent droughts. Out of the 42 small Dams, 23 dams have been completed, while the construction of the remaining 11 Dams is in progress and would be completed in July, 2022.
Kalidas Dam has been constructed on Ghordharo Nai, located at a distance of 1KM in the west of Nagarparkar Town for Rs333 million While addressing the inauguration ceremony of Kalidas Dam Murad Ali Shah said that after the completion of 23 dams “The residents of over 45 to 50 villages are not only drinking water from the dams but extinguishing thirsts of their animals and irrigating their around 45,000 barren lands,” he said. After completion of the whole Project about 85,000 acres of the agriculture Land would be cultivated and 87 villages would have the facility to use dam water.