Release water from Mettur dam on scheduled date, farmers urge govt.

Farmers person exhorted the State authorities to assistance the Mettur dam shutters connected the scheduled day of June 12 for the kuruvai season.

Participating successful the monthly agriculture grievance gathering chaired by Collector B. Priyanka Pankajam, farmers urged Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay to sojourn Mettur dam connected June 12 to merchandise h2o for irrigation successful Delta districts for kuruvai cultivation and requested him to sojourn the Grand Anicut subsequently to merchandise h2o into the Cauvery, the Vennar, and Grand Anicut irrigation systems.

To guarantee creaseless disbursement of h2o for irrigation, they urged Mr. Vijay to importune upon the Karnataka authorities to merchandise h2o owed to Tamil Nadu arsenic per the Cauvery Tribunal Award.

Exhorting the State authorities to guarantee the availability of agriculture inputs successful capable quantity, they demanded the desilting of ‘C’ and ‘D’ irrigation channels beryllium completed earlier June 12.

While demanding kuruvai bundle assistance, they requested the contiguous authorities to fulfil its electoral assurance of waiver of workplace loans.