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For the completion of the Cauvery surplus h2o scheme, popularly known arsenic the 100-lake scheme, ₹115 crore is further needed, arsenic farmers demanded to implicit the strategy works.
In April 2020, erstwhile Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami laid the instauration chromatic for the Cauvery surplus water strategy astatine a outgo of ₹565 crore, done which 100 lakes and tanks successful the Mettur, Omalur, Edappadi, and Sankari Assembly constituencies would beryllium filled. While Mettur Dam attains its afloat capableness of 120 feet, the surplus water from the dam volition beryllium pumped to the main pumping presumption astatine Thippampatti done a assistance irrigation system. From Thippampatti pumping station, the h2o volition beryllium pumped to the lakes and tanks done the pumping stations successful Vellalapuram, Nangavalli, and Kannantheri.
Before the 2021 Assembly elections, Mr. Palaniswami inaugurated the archetypal signifier of the strategy connected February 26, 2021, and surplus water was pumped to 4 lakes. After DMK came to powerfulness successful 2021, Water Resources Department (WRD) Minister Duraimurugan, connected November 16, 2021, inspected the Thippampatti pumping presumption and alleged that the AIADMK authorities started this strategy successful a unreserved and did not get onshore for the task and assured to velocity up the works. In the twelvemonth 2023, the DMK authorities allocated further ₹108 crore for the task and works were sped up and done this project, this twelvemonth h2o pumped to 60 lakes, successful which 58 lakes were filled this year. For the remaining lakes and tanks, the task needs a further ₹115 crore fund.
Officials attached to WRD said that astatine archetypal the task targeted filling 100 lakes and tanks. But owed to 21 ponds coming nether backstage patta land, the task was reduced to 79 lakes. Later, based connected the request of farmers, 3 lakes successful the Mettur assembly constituency were added. So the full fig of lakes and ponds that volition payment nether the task is 82 only. Due to the wrong estimation of cost, the task outgo was fixed astatine ₹565 crore astatine first. For civilian works and pipeline laying works, ₹108 crore was sanctioned further successful 2023. Using these funds now, 60 lakes and tanks are capable to get h2o and this twelvemonth lakes that person not been filled for respective decades were filled. This twelvemonth Katchupalli Lake successful Konganapuram was filled aft 70 years, Kasappa Lake successful Tharamangalam filled aft 55 years, Pappampadi New Lake successful Omalur filled aft 50 years and Vairavan Lake successful Nagavalli filled aft 28 years, officials added.
Stating that 0.85 TMC of surplus h2o was pumped to capable 60 lakes this year, the WRD officials said that to pump h2o to the remaining 22 lakes and tanks, it needs ₹115 crore. The remaining h2o bodies did not person channels and channels should beryllium recently dug, and successful galore places the channels should beryllium filled with concrete, arsenic they are deeper. The WRD sent the connection to the authorities and funds are expected to beryllium allocated soon, WRD officials added.
