 This lease was made after 24 years negotiation between the Maharaja and the British.The lease indenture granted full right, power and liberty to the Secretary of State for India to construct make and carry out on the leased land and to use exclusively when constructed, made and carried out, all such irrigation works and other works ancillary thereto.The agreement gave 8000 acres of land for the reservoir and another 100 acres to construct the dam.