5 Amazing Facts about Powerhouse of Sir Ganga Ram in Okara

On March 22, 1925 there was a lot of commotion in the rural dusty town of Renala Khurd some 100 kilometres south of Lahore. Governor Punjab, Sir William Malcolm Hailey, was scheduled to arrive in the town to inaugurate the 1.1 megawatt Ganga powerhouse built over a branch of LowerBariDoabCanal.
The power station had been built by Sir Ganga Ram out of his own pocket who, in Sir William Hailey’s words, "won like a hero and gave like a saint".
The project, a private venture indeed, was designed to irrigate some 50,000 acres of surrounding lands leased by Sir Ganga Ram. There were at least three pumping stations in the surrounding area lifting water from the main canal to irrigate the lands and these pumping stations were provided electricity from the Ganga Powerhouse.
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