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Kanniyakumari Collector R. Alagumeena has urged the Water Resource Department (WRD) officials to taxable a presumption study of restoration of waterbodies, impacted by the ongoing four-lane enactment being carried retired by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).
She made this connection astatine the farmers’ grievance redress gathering held astatine the territory Collectorate connected Thursday. The absorption stemmed from the predominant concerns raised by farmers.
Ms. Alagumeena further insisted that the NHAI simultaneously begins restoring waterbodies, erstwhile the four-lane task astatine a peculiar country attains 75% of completion. She stressed that WRD indispensable instrumentality idiosyncratic work for monitoring the restoration of waterbodies and hole a database of completed tanks and waterbodies that person been restored, arsenic good arsenic those successful pending restoration.
At the meeting, Chenbagasekara Pillai, a husbandman from Thuvarankadu highlighted the lack of adjunct cultivation officers successful each region, stating that these officials had been adjuvant for the farmers successful providing timely consciousness connected harvest diseases and different important information.
He added that the territory had implicit 40 adjunct cultivation officers and that erstwhile farmers contacted them for doubts and clarifications, they were told that astir of them had been transferred.
He urged the territory medication to widen the h2o merchandise from Pechiparai dam until March 30, arsenic the h2o released successful Anathanar canal was delayed past year, affecting the paddy farming aggregate ways crossed the district.
Addressing the concerns, Ms. Alagumeena stated that indispensable enactment would beryllium taken regarding the duty of adjunct cultivation officer. She noted that requests for hold of h2o merchandise would beryllium discussed with acrophobic departments and due enactment would follow.
Vins Anto of Kodhayar Irrigation Committee raised concerns implicit sub divisional meetings conducted by WRD, stating that the gathering dates were informed lone a time successful beforehand and astir officials were not present.
The Collector instructed the WRD officials to program the meetings successful beforehand and notify farmers earlier. She besides urged the officials to articulation the gathering done virtual telephone if they are incapable to be successful person.
Padmanabhapuram Sub Collector Vinay Kumar Meena, District Revenue Officer A. Poongothai and different officials were present.
