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The Tirunelveli Revenue Divisional Officer, pursuing a farmer’s 11 petitions, volition behaviour an enquiry connected Tuesday (February 24) into the alleged amerciable mining and encroachments made on the chaotic streams carrying h2o to the Sethurayanpudur tank, District Collector R. Sukumar has said.
He was responding to a query raised by a husbandman successful the farmers’ grievances redressal gathering held astatine the Collectorate connected Friday.
According to agriculturist Arumugam of Sethurayanpudur adjacent Manur said a backstage chromatic quarry firm, which had been fixed support for mining stones adjacent Sethurayanpudur, had illegally encroached upon the chaotic streams bringing h2o to Sethurayanpudurkulam, a rain-fed irrigation tank. Besides mining stones beyond the permissible level successful the permitted area, the steadfast was besides quarrying stones from adjoining areas, including the present adust chaotic streams successful usurpation of the support granted.
“Due to this man-made obstruction and catastrophe caused to the chaotic streams with explosives, the rainwater coming to the Sethurayanpudur vessel had stopped wholly for the past fewer years.”
“More than 20,000 tonnes of stones is being taken each time from this quarry and transported successful dense trucks, which severely damageS the agrarian roads. I person submitted 11 petitions seeking cancellation of the chromatic quarry licence fixed to this steadfast for this violation. However, each the petitions person been trashed and the farmers’ ordeals proceed arsenic we are solely depending connected the groundwater for irrigation. The Collector should inspect the spot to measure the violations and the encroachments and instrumentality due action,” Mr. Arumugam prayed.
Replying, Dr. Sukumar announced that the RDO, Tirunelveli, would clasp the enquiry into this contented astatine the RDO’s Office connected the Collectorate premises connected Tuesday (February 24). “You should enactment without neglect successful the enquiry arsenic a petitioner and contiguous your case,” the Collector said and Mr. Arumugam agreed to it.
Farmer and State vice-president of Tamil Nadu Vivasaayigal Sangam P. Perumbadaiyar from Thirukkurungudi said banana, particularly the premium ‘nenthiran’ banana variety, was being auctioned for a throwaway terms arsenic the terms had crashed from ₹ 40 a kg successful the past to ₹ 17 a kg present adjacent arsenic this assortment raised connected a fewer 100 acres successful the Thirukkurungudi – Cheranmahadevi loop was acceptable for harvest.
“The Tamil Nadu Government, too operationalising the banana auction centre astatine Kalakkad, should hole minimum enactment terms for banana to prevention the growers, who are battling the nature’s fury similar gale and the chaotic boars causing unimaginable demolition to lasting crops. Moreover, these crop-raiding chaotic animals besides onslaught the farmers arsenic they effort to pursuit them distant from their ranches. Since the wood section is successful nary temper to hunt down the chaotic boars invading the fields, the farmers person decided to enactment the governmental enactment that assures to hunt down the chaotic boars and region them from the database of Scheduled Wild Animals,” Mr. Perumbadaiyar said.
Agriculturist D. Abraham of Kanarpatti adjacent Manur appealed to the authorities to springiness the monthly assistance for the farmers supra the property of 60 and cent per cent assistance for erecting goat and sheep pen.
He besides pointedout the non-disbursal of security benefits to the achromatic gram nonaccomplishment suffered by the farmers of Manur taluk.
When husbandman Murugan of Therkkupatti complained astir non-disbursal of harvest and cattle loans by the Ukkirankottai Primary Agriculture Cooperative Society, the Collector instructed Tirunelveli Revenue Divisional Officer to inquire into the complaint.
Dr. Sukumar said that cultivation crops connected 56,200.71 hectare and horticultural crops connected 10,626.51 hecatare had been cultivated since January during the existent fiscal. The territory medication had opened nonstop paddy procurement centres astatine 73 places for buying the paddy raised during the ‘pisanam’ season. Government orders had been obtained for giving compensation of ₹12.79 lakh for paddy and ₹13.62 lakh for horticultural crops damaged by unseasonal downpour.
The Collector appealed to the agriculturists to insure their crops by paying the prescribed premium earlier the deadline.
District Revenue Officer M. Durai, Deputy Director of Kalakkad – Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve’s Ambasamudram Division Srikant, Joint Director of Agriculture Poovannan, District Forest Officer Ilango and others participated successful the meeting.
