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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has restrained the State Highways Department from taking soil from Vaigai stream for the improvement of the roadworthy task connecting Arapalayam and Samayanallur successful Madurai.
A Division Bench of Justices G. R. Swaminathan and B. Pugalendhi was proceeding the nationalist involvement litigation petition filed by activistic Vaigai Rajan of Madurai who sought a absorption to the authorities to reconstruct the Vaigai stream to its archetypal position.
The petitioner said the State Highways Department had projected to laic an 8 km agelong two-lane roadworthy with a width of 10.5 meters on the bluish slope of the Vaigai stream from adjacent the Kamarajar Bridge successful Arapalayam till Samayanallur connected NH-44.
In the guise of roadworthy formation, the stream has been encroached upon and the ungraded has been illegally mined. In 2019, arsenic a portion of Smart City Scheme, the banks of the Vaigai stream were taken by the authorities for laying roads. This had already reduced the width of the Vaigai river, helium said.
Under the jurisdiction of Madurai Corporation, respective roads were damaged and were not successful a bully information to drive. Without repairing the damaged roads, it was not indispensable for the enactment of caller roads by encroaching upon the Vaigai river, helium said.
He sought a absorption to restrain the authorities from carrying retired immoderate benignant of works related to the enactment of roadworthy successful the Vaigai stream nether the project. He besides sought an due enactment beryllium taken against those progressive successful the amerciable mining of soil from the Vaigai river.
