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The Salem Corporation gave its consent to a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) to region the Seemai Karuvelam (Prosopis juliflora) trees from the Panamarathupatti Lake that spreads implicit 2,137 acre.
Panamarathupatti Lake, erstwhile the main root of drinking h2o for Salem Corporation residents, was built by the British successful 1911 astatine a outgo of ₹9.68 lakh. In the aboriginal 1980s, movie shootings took spot astatine the lake. But later, owed to encroachments connected the way of h2o coming to the lake, it started to adust and the water was afloat covered by bushes, particularly the Seemai Karuvelam.
The Salem Corporation took galore steps to crook the water into a tourer spot and sent a connection to renovate it to the government. But owed to backing constraints, the renovation did not instrumentality place. Last year, the Corporation cleaned bushes connected 55 acre successful Panamarathupatti Lake and 55,000 saplings were planted to get ₹25 crore successful peculiar assistance from the Union Government nether the Special Assistance to States for Capital Investments (SASCI) scheme.
Meanwhile, the Salem Corporation gave its consent to an NGO based successful Tiruchi, on with volunteers, to region the Seemai Karuvelam trees from the lake.
The Corporation officials said the NGO desilted 3 lakes successful Tiruchi territory with the support of the authorities and renovated them. Without rent, done excavator machines, the NGO volition region the trees and renovate the lake. The Corporation gave consent lone to region the Seemai Karuvelam trees and utilizing the mud, they volition fortify the banks of the lake. They besides volition make places for birds and volition sow thenar seeds and different histrion saplings. The NGO volition bash this enactment escaped of cost, the officials added.
