During the British Raj, after Punjab and Agra and Uttarakhand, the government focused on the regions of Buxar, Gazipur and Kaimur, which grew the most crops in Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh.

The British and Indian governments built many canals in the 1870s-1950s to increase the irrigation of these regions, especially the parganas of Kamsar, Zamania, Sherpur, Ramgarh, Durgawati, Chainpur, Bhabua, Kudra, Kochas, Buxar and Chausa.

These regions had 20 rivers, so irrigation was easy and many canals and tributaries were built to support and improve agriculture there.

The Kudra weir and distribution system was remodelled and completed in the year 2006, in order to make available the storage of Duravati reservoir.

The project has received investment clearance of Planning Commission in the year 2000 for an estimated cost of Rs 231.41 crore (1998 price level).