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With dense rainfall nether Cyclone Ditwah’s power easing to airy oregon nary showers crossed the Cauvery delta, the administrative units of the districts successful the portion person shifted absorption from exigency effect to draining stagnant h2o and protecting samba harvest astatine a captious stage.
From Sunday evening, astir parts of Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam and Karaikal recorded lone airy to precise airy rainfall, officials said. On Monday, respective stations reported hint oregon nary rain, creating a model for tract operations.
Sources successful aggregate districts said Agriculture Department officials person been co-opted with Water Resources Department (WRD) engineers, and removal of h2o hyacinth successful irrigation channels and drains is nether mode “in afloat swing” to amended flow. Motor and lipid engines are being deployed wide to pump retired h2o from low-lying residential pockets and inundated fields.
In Mayiladuthurai, Collector H. S. Srikanth inspected samba fields surrounded by rainwater successful Aarupathi, Kalagasthinathapuram and Kaliappanallur villages successful Tharangambadi taluk. He interacted with farmers, reviewed drainage routes and instructed officials to guarantee that tract channels and subdivision canals transportation h2o retired without obstruction.
District officials said WRD and Agriculture teams are moving unneurotic to fto h2o retired of paddy fields, portion agrarian improvement officers, municipal commissioners and municipality panchayat officials are engaged successful draining h2o from habitations. Complaints to the power country astatine the Mayiladuthurai Collectorate are being routed to enactment departments for action.
In Tiruvarur, lone airy rainfall was reported. Oil-engine pumps are successful usage astatine respective points, portion hyacinth and weed removal is progressing successful the Odambogiyar stream and Kalaniyaru to velocity up outflow and forestall backflow into fields.
In Nagapattinam, wherever a section vacation had earlier been declared owed to Nagore Kanduri festival nevertheless gross and agriculture unit continued harvest harm enumeration and estimates of drainage clip for inundated tracts. Sub-collectors, municipal and municipality panchayat officials are overseeing deployment of pumps and machinery successful low-lying areas, sources said.
In Karaikal, lone airy showers were recorded, enabling systematic desilting and drainage work, according to territory officials.
In Thanjavur, the territory medication is monitoring the power country circular the clock. Rain-related complaints connected location damage, inundation and histrion autumn are being logged and forwarded to the acrophobic departments, with peculiar absorption connected draining h2o from samba and thaladi fields that were heavy flooded past week.
In Pudukkottai, according to the regular report, 16 huts and 36 pucca houses were partially damaged, and livestock nonaccomplishment included 7 cows, 13 goats, 2 bullocks and 3 calves.
