Farmers’ grievances redress meeting conducted in Tiruppur after a gap of over two months

The farmers’ grievances redress gathering was conducted by the Tiruppur territory medication connected Saturday aft a spread of implicit 2 months.

According to officials, the gathering could not beryllium conducted successful October successful presumption of the sojourn of Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan to Tiruppur. Last month, the territory medication could not docket the monthly gathering arsenic the full authoritative machinery was successful the heavy of Special Intensive Revision of draught electoral rolls.

Farmers raised respective issues, including h2o availability for irrigation and livestock management, astatine the gathering held this month.

A petition submitted by the PAP Vellakovil Branch Canal (Kangayam-Vellakovil) Water Conservation Association flagged the simplification successful the proviso of h2o successful tail-end areas of the PAP Canal Fourth Zone, successful the 5th round.

Despite the ample retention successful the PAP strategy dams, the tail-end areas were experiencing adust conditions owed to gaps successful the absorption by Water Resources Department, president of the relation P. Velusamy said.

A farmer, Appusamy, urged the WRD to guarantee filling of 10 tanks nether Athikkadavu-Avinashi Project successful Senkulam, Thekkalur, Alankadu, and Ettiveerampalayam villages. Farmers losing their crops to peafowl indispensable beryllium adequately compensated, Mr. Appusamy emphasised.

Baladhandayudhapani of Udumalpet sought to cognize the presumption of the task for modernisation of Amaravathi Cooperative Sugar Mill. Farmers who person raised sugarcane successful implicit 5,000 acres relying connected the modernisation program are astatine a crossroads, helium said.