Provincial irrigation department has started its annual canal desilting campaign, in which 482 irrigation canals will be desilted across Punjab, to improve water flow. Irrigation department workers will remove 117-million-cubic-foot of silt from 2,618 canal miles. This was disclosed in a desilting campaign review committee meeting, which was chaired by Punjab agriculture and irrigation minister Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh. Chief engineers of various irrigations zones informed the meeting that the provincial irrigation department completed desilting on 2,597 canal miles in 2009-10, while 2,112 canal miles were desilted in 2010-11. Meeting was informed that irrigation department had constituted monitoring committees to supervise the desilting campaign. The minister directed all officials to ensure timely completion of the desilting process.