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Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Minister P. Geetha Jeevan connected Monday launched flood power works, including desilting of canals and strengthening of bunds, successful the city.
In 2023, owed to dense rainfall successful Thoothukudi district, floodwaters breached the banks of respective ponds and entered the metropolis limits, severely affecting the residents.
To forestall specified flooding wrong the metropolis and to guarantee creaseless drainage during monsoon, respective precautionary measures are being undertaken successful advance. Accordingly, nether the Corporate Social Responsibility Fund of NLC Tamil Nadu Power Limited, assorted flood mitigation works are being carried retired to fortify the bunds and wide the discarded on the waterway that connects the canal adjacent Madathur railway way to Puckle canal. This includes areas specified arsenic Pasumpon Nagar, Muthu Nagar and Asirvatha Nagar.
Ms. Geetha Jeevan directed the officials to implicit the enactment astatine the earliest.
Additionally, the Minister besides inaugurated a caller span starring to Fisheries College constructed astatine a outgo of ₹14.60 lakh.
