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Farmers successful Western portion are hopeful that the TVK Government volition leverage its governmental ties with the Congress to prosecute the caller Congress Government successful Kerala for taking guardant the Anamalayar-Nallar task that envisages diversion of up to 2.5 TMC h2o from West-flowing rivers into Thirumoorthy Dam.
The Movement for Anamalayar-Nallaru Water Project that had approached each the large parties to see the execution of the task successful their predetermination manifestoes, is hopeful that the TVK Government volition prioritise the task that has been successful limbo for decades.
The committedness of governmental parties for initiation of steps for fructification of the task anterior to the Lok Sabha polls remained lone connected paper.
Though operation of the Idamalayar Dam has been completed - a request nether the PAP (Parambikulam Aliyar Project) statement singed successful 1958 - the Anamalayar and Nirar-Nallar projects could not beryllium initiated, since determination has been nary effect from Kerala to repeated requests from Tamil Nadu.
Kerala, the farmers complain, has not obtained the Completion Certificate for the Idamalayar Dam, which is simply a necessity for starting the works connected the Anamalayar and Nirar-Nallar projects.
The caller task envisaging digging of caller contour canals would beryllium capable to transmission h2o from the Parambikulam Dam to Thirumoorthy Dam successful a overmuch shorter duration, and pave the mode for expanding the cultivable country substantially successful Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts.
At present, the ayacut of 3.77 lakh acres wetted by 126-km PAP Main Canal is divided into 4 zones and h2o moving done the full magnitude is supplied from Thirumurthy Dam connected rotation basis.
At times of dense rainfall, surplus h2o to the grade of 8.5 tmc, is getting drained into Arabian Sea. Water from Parambikulam Dam reaches Thirumoorthy Dam done a circuitous 50-km contour tunnel, with a capableness of little than 1,000 cusecs. It takes 20 days for the Thirmoorthy Dam to get filled.
According to officials, inter-State talks person to beryllium held astatine the levels of method sub-committees, secretaries and Ministers earlier formulation of the program for the project.
Farmers are learnt to person urged the Water Resources Department to instrumentality up treatment connected the task astatine the highest level.
