Farmers’ collective urges Puducherry government to repair damaged channels at Bahour lake

The Bangaru Vaickal Neeradhara Koottamaippu, a h2o users and farmers’ corporate has urged the Puducherry authorities to instrumentality up contiguous repair of damaged channels and implicit embankment works astatine Bahour water up of monsoon.

In a missive addressed to Lieutenant Governor K. Kailashnathan, president of the corporate V. Chandrasekhar said the Bahour lake, a cardinal h2o root for the portion contains six irrigation channels, of which lone the Seliyamedu transmission is presently functional.

The remaining 5 channels are successful a deteriorated authorities owed to deficiency of attraction implicit the past 2 decades, causing superior disruption successful h2o proviso and affecting farmers’ livelihoods. The authorities should instantly reconstruct each the damaged channels and guarantee that they are operational earlier the onset of monsoon. It should besides implicit the embankment works astatine Bahour lake, helium said.