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Tributes were paid to the 13th-century Kongu chieftain Kalingarayan connected Monday, marking the 743rd day of the Kalingarayan Canal.
Kalingarayan, calved at Kanagapuram successful Vellode, was the ruler of Poondurai Nadu, a subdivision of Kongu Nadu. He constructed a barrage crossed the Bhavani River and an irrigation canal extending 91.10 km, from Kalingarayanpalayam successful Bhavani to Avudaiyarparai successful Kodumudi.
On the fifth time of the Tamil period Thai successful 1283 CE, helium dedicated the anicut and canal to the world. The canal continues to irrigate 15,743 acres of cultivation onshore successful the district. Kalingarayan laid the instauration for river-water interlinking by initiating efforts to link the Bhavani, Noyyal, and Amaravathi rivers done the canal helium excavated. In designation of this historical contribution, the day, January 19, is observed annually as Kalingarayan Day.
The State government has constructed a memorial for the chieftain astatine the Kalingarayan anicut, and Kalingarayan Day is present observed arsenic an official government function.
District Collector S. Kandasamy paid floral tributes to the statue of Kalingarayan successful the beingness of Erode MP K.E. Prakash, MLAs A.G. Venkatachalam, E.R. Eswaran, and V.C. Chandhirakumar, Erode Mayor S. Nagarathinam, elder officials, and descendants of Kalingarayan.
It whitethorn beryllium recalled that in 2021, the International Commission connected Irrigation and Drainage recognised the Kalingarayan Anicut and Channel System as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure.
