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Except for the operation of 200 metres of retaining walls astatine the Perumpallam canal, which is presently nether way, works to make the canal astatine a outgo of ₹200.71 crore person been completed. Corporation officials said they were hopeful of completing the remaining enactment wrong a month.
The 12.15-km-long canal passes done the metropolis and joins the Cauvery River adjacent Vendipalayam. Seepage from the Lower Bhavani Project (LBP) canal and rainwater are its superior sources, arsenic the canal earlier functioned arsenic an irrigation channel. Over the years, however, encroachments, indiscriminate dumping of garbage, and the discharge of effluents and sewage led to the canal losing its significance.
Under the Smart Cities Mission, the Corporation began enactment successful December 2019 to make the canal successful six packages. The task included desilting, factual lining, operation of retaining walls and cheque dams, gathering 4 bridges crossed the canal, landscaping, instauration of greenish spaces, and proviso of recreational facilities on with dedicated tracks for walking and cycling. The works were primitively scheduled for completion wrong 24 months.
However, delays successful removing encroachments, a five-month halt owed to the COVID-19 lockdown, dense inflow of rainwater, and ineligible disputes pushed the task timeline backmost by implicit six months. As portion of the project, much than 1,100 families surviving on the canal were relocated to tenements built astatine Chithode by the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board.
A elder Corporation technologist told The Hindu that operation of the remaining 200 metres of retaining walls was successful advancement and would beryllium completed wrong a month, aft which the task would beryllium considered complete.
However, sources said that lone desilting, factual lining, operation of retaining walls, cheque dams, and 4 bridges had been completed. Landscaping, instauration of greenish spaces, and recreational facilities, including dedicated cycling and walking tracks, were excluded from the task and would not beryllium taken up.
