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The 1951 construction rate was $255,000,000 a year, a sum just under the total reclamation investment for the first 30 years of the program's history. Construction work is moving forward on the Missouri River Basin project, whose 6 million acres of land makes it the world's largest irrigation project.

Population.—The area of Punjab (Pakistan) is 62,245 square miles and the population (according to the 1951 census) is 18,828,000. The largest cities are Lahore, the capital, with a population of 849,333, and Rawalpindi, with a population of 236,877. Other cities with a population exceeding 100,000 are Multan (190,122), Lyallpur (179,127), Sialkot (156,378), and Gujranwala (114,193). The literacy rate in the state according to the 1951 census was only 10.2 per cent as compared with 13.2 per cent for Pakistan as a whole.

Future Reclamation Program.—The reclamation program of construction and new project investigations is driving forward on a scale aimed at ultimate full development of our western water and related resources. Construction at the end of the 1951 fiscal year was under way on approximately 90 projects and project units, including 15 new dams, 10 powerplants, 360 miles of main canals, and 2,200 miles of transmission lines.