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Periodic desilting of each tanks should beryllium made mandatory successful the Public Works Department manuals. During the adust season, the tanks indispensable beryllium desilted and the bunds strengthened, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed.
A Division Bench of Justices G. Jayachandran and K.K. Ramakrishnan said, “We are of the presumption that a one-time measurement of desilting whitethorn not beryllium capable and periodic desilting of each tanks should beryllium made mandatory.”
The tribunal was proceeding a petition filed successful 2018 by Yagappa Nagar West Residents Welfare Association successful Madurai done its president A. Irulandy, who sought a absorption to authorities to desilt and deepen the waterbodies successful and astir Madurai.
The six large waterbodies required contiguous attraction for desilting and deepening truthful arsenic to store h2o for nationalist usage and summation groundwater level. There was an acute shortage of drinking h2o contempt Madurai being surrounded by six important waterbodies — Vandiyur tank, Sellur tank, Madakulam tank, Thenkal tank, Koothiyarkundu vessel and Periyakulam tank, helium said.
The authorities submitted that the desilting task had been undertaken. After completion of the desilting and strengthening of the bunds, each the tanks were astatine afloat capableness owed to copious rainfall and that the details of the desilting task and the existent presumption had been conveyed by the Assistant Executive Engineer of Periyar Vaigai Water Division, Madurai.
Considering the submissions made and the enactment taken regarding strengthening of the vessel bunds and desilting of the tanks, the tribunal disposed of the petition.
