First phase of Cauvery drinking water scheme inaugurated

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K. N. Nehru, Minister for Municipal Administration, Urban and Water Supply, inaugurates a combined drinking h2o  strategy  adjacent   Oddanchathiram successful  Dindigul territory  connected  Friday. Ministers I. Periyasamy and  R. Chakkarapani are besides  seen.

K. N. Nehru, Minister for Municipal Administration, Urban and Water Supply, inaugurates a combined drinking h2o strategy adjacent Oddanchathiram successful Dindigul territory connected Friday. Ministers I. Periyasamy and R. Chakkarapani are besides seen. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The archetypal signifier of the Cauvery drinking h2o strategy to proviso drinking h2o to Oddanchatram successful Dindigul territory and the adjacent areas was inaugurated connected Friday.

Minister for Municipal Administration K. N. Nehru, Minister for Rural Development I. Periyasamy, Minister for Food and Civil Supplies R. Sakkarapani and others inaugurated the archetypal signifier of the drinking h2o scheme. The task is worthy ₹1,368.05 crore and would screen 1,422 agrarian settlements successful Oddanchatram municipality, 2 municipality panchayats and 7 panchayat unions.

Mr. Nehru said the Cauvery drinking h2o strategy was being implemented astatine an estimated outgo of ₹4,200 crore and retired of this ₹1,360 crore was allocated for Dindigul and Oddanchatram areas and ₹2,840 crore was allocated for Ramanathapuram district.

He said that 75% of the enactment has been completed successful Oddanchatram and the archetypal signifier has been inaugurated for nationalist usage The remaining enactment volition beryllium completed soon and steps volition beryllium taken to supply drinking h2o to each the villages.

Mr. Periyasamy said that the drinking h2o strategy volition lick the drinking h2o occupation of the radical of Dindigul district. Necessary steps volition besides beryllium taken to guarantee that the territory becomes self-sufficient successful agriculture.

Mr. Sakkarapani said the strategy was launched successful 2023. Through the strategy determination volition beryllium nary h2o occupation successful Dindigul territory for the adjacent 30 years. Palani MLA I. P. Senthil Kumar, Vedasandur MLA S. Gandhirajan and others were present.

Published - February 13, 2026 10:41 p.m. IST

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