About Apna Ganganagar in , Sri Ganganagar

Ganganagar is named after the General H.H. Maharajadhiraj Raj-Rajeshwar Narendra Shiromani Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh Bahadur , Maharaja of Bikaner , G.C.S.I. , G.C.I.E. , G.C.V.O. , G.B.E. , K.C.B. , K.I.H.. Ganganagar, also called as Sri Ganganagar is well planned city in Rajasthan.The city is called as the ‘The food basket of Rajasthan’ and ‘Green district of Rajasthan’. Paddy fields and well built homes are features of Ganganagar. Sri Ganganagar is established as the major plan of irrigating the Erstwhile Bikaner State. Sri Ganganagar is situated at the point where the Satluj Waters enters Rajasthan or Erstwhile Bikaner state. The Bikaner state was affected by the worst famine in the year 1899¿1900. In order to get rid of this problem permanently, in 1903 Maharaja Sri Ganga Singhji obtained the services of A. W. E. Standley, Chief Engineer, who demonstrated the feasibility of the western area of the Bikaner State being brought under irrigation from the Satluj Waters. The plan of the Satluj Valley Project was drawn by then Chief Engineer of Punjab Mr. R. G. Kennedy according to which the vast area of Erstwhile Bikaner state could be brought under irrigation. But because of objections by the erstwhile State of Bahawalpur, the project got delayed and finally with intervention of then Viceroy of India Lord Curzon in 1906, a Tripartite Conference was held and an agreement was reached and signed on 4 September 1920. The foundation stone of the Canal Head Works at Ferozepur was laid on 5 December, 1925 and the work completed in 1927 by constructing 89 miles of lined canal. The opening ceremony was performed on 26 October 1927 by Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India. The plan for Sri Ganganagar was drawnat this time only. And irrigated parts of Bikaner state came under Sri Ganganagar district and now parted Hanumangargh District.Punjabi andBagri culture dominates the city and the lifestyle here is mixed of both these culture.so this is the ganganagar history