Rangpur, Punjab

Rangpur Baghoor is a town and one of the 51 union councils (administrative subdivisions) of Khushab District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. The Union Council is part of the Noorpur Thal. It is situated on Kaloorkot road to the south west of Khushab city. The people of Rangpur Baghoor are very simple in living. Most of the people profession in this town is earning from their cultivated lands. 20–25 years ago its soil was very fertile but after the seepage of water from the Chashma link canal most of its area is spoiled. People grow wheat, grams on their lands and work hard to feed their children. Rangpur Baghoor is the second biggest town in Noorpur Thal Tehsil after Noorpur Thal City. Therefore, it has a key role in tehsil Noorpur Thal's politics as well as in trade of GRAMS.The Greater Thal canalThe history of Thal Project goes back to over 130 years. It was in 1873 that the project was first conceived for the whole of Thal Doab. The proposal to irrigate this area was repeatedly brought up for discussion in 1919, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1936 and in 1949. But the British colonial masters repeatedly shelved the project on the pretext that it will severely hurt the water availability to lower riparian. The project proposal once again came under discussion in 1975 in a controversial way when Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) refused to endorse the project. Finally, on August 16, 2001, General Pervez Musharraf Retired, then Chief Executive of Pakistan, inaugurated the 30-billion rupee Greater Thal Canal (GTCc) project.