During the construction, the people displaced by the dam protested against the state government's rehabilitation and resettlement policy, calling it unjust.

[2] In October 1999, the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government sanctioned a project to bring the Bisalpur reservoir water to the state capital Jaipur.

In 2004, the Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government started the construction of a pipeline to bring Bisalpur water to Jaipur.

[3] The project was co-financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

In 2016, the Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) proposed a ₹ 9.5 billion project to supply the Bisalpur water to the remaining areas of the city.