[4] The canal was formally inaugurated by Governor of the Punjab Sir William Malcolm Hailey on 12 April 1912.

[5] Sir Ganga Ram incidentally also built a power station on the main canal near the town of Renala Khurd in 1925.

The power station had five generators delivering a total of 1.1 mega watt electricity.

The canal has been rehabilitated as part of a mega project funded by the Asian Development Fund[6] and implemented by the Lower Bari Doab Canal Improvement Project of the Punjab Irrigation Department in 2014–18.

The 201 km-long canal along with 2,264 km of distribution channels irrigates 700,000 hectares of land of Okara, Pakpattan, Sahiwal, and Khanewal districts.