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Farmers person urged the State authorities to summation the allocation for the Cauvery-Gundar stream linking task successful the State Budget for 2026-27 and expedite its completion.
In a statement, C. Rengarajan, president of the farmers’ helping of the Tamil Maanila Congress, said the task had witnessed delays due to the fact that of inadequate money allocation implicit the years. He appealed to the State authorities to supply the required fiscal enactment and guarantee its aboriginal completion successful the involvement of farmers and the public.
The task envisages diverting astir 6,300 cardinal cubic feet of surplus floodwater from the Cauvery for the payment of 7 districts. It involves the operation of a barrage astatine Mayanur successful Karur territory and a 256-km canal web linking the Cauvery, the Vaigai, and the Gundar rivers, too connecting respective smaller watercourses.
Mr. Rengarajan said the task would amended irrigation facilities and drinking h2o proviso successful drought-prone districts, including Tiruchi, Pudukottai, Sivaganga, Ramanathapuram, and Virudhunagar, thereby contributing to their development.
He urged the authorities to marque capable budgetary allocation and instrumentality steps to implicit the task astatine the earliest.
