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The efforts taken by 3 successive District Collectors – Shilpa Prabhakar Satish, V. Vishnu and K. P. Karthikeyan - successful restoring hitherto neglected systemized tanks, irrigation channels, rain-fed tanks of the territory and the Tamriabharani river, the lifeline of each 4 confederate districts, person collectively ensured the territory winning the Centre’s ‘Best South Zone District successful Water Conservation Award’, instituted by the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
After assuming bureau successful May 2018, Ms. Shilpa, during her year-long tenure successful the district, initiated steps to rejuvenate h2o bodies and the irrigation channels, including the Kannadiyan Channel, a captious cog successful the Tamirabharani irrigation system, Hanumanadhi watercourse successful Radhapuram taluk, Vaeinthankulam tank, dispersed connected 20 acres adjacent caller bus-stand done ‘Nam Tamirabharani Iyakkam’.
Since the Vaeinthankulam vessel astir the caller bus-stand gives refreshing look to this autobus terminus, she took steps to cheque wholly the uncontrolled travel of liquid discarded getting generated successful the hotels, restaurants and the eateries into this h2o body. After stopping the travel of sewage, she, done the ‘Nam Tamirabharani Iyakkam’, mobilised funds from the donors for desilting Vaeinthankulam and created tiny soil dunes wrong Vaeinthankulam to pull the h2o birds. As the desilted canals brought copious h2o into the tank, Vaeinthankulam overflowed successful November 2020 and she released implicit 5,000 fingerlings successful the h2o assemblage to make beardown prey basal for the h2o birds visiting Vaeinthankulam.
Her idiosyncratic monitoring besides led to the removal of encroachments made on the Chittar watercourse successful the bluish parts of the district. Despite stiff absorption from a fewer politicians and the nationalist representatives, Ms. Shilpa, who camped astatine Tenkasi successful May 2019, ensured the unbiased removal of amerciable structures made on the Chittar watercourse.
The h2o assemblage restoration tempo acceptable by her got further accelerated erstwhile V. Vishnu took the baton from her successful November 2020 done his ‘Nellai Neervalam’ inaugural for restoring 75 hitherto neglected h2o bodies nether the power of section bodies to people India’s 75th Independence Day successful 2021. The full workout specified arsenic desilting and strengthening of vessel bunds were taken-up with nationalist publication without causing immoderate expenditure to the authorities exchequer.
With the progressive information of the public, particularly retired authorities employees, section VIPs, nationalist representatives, schoolhouse and assemblage managements and the businessmen, who either funded the programme done a slope relationship managed by a tiny radical of radical for each task oregon sponsored worldly similar earthmovers, the workout gained momentum.
He, aft roping successful GIS adept Raj Bhagat with Water Resources Institute of India for preparing h2o contour for each 204 colony panchayats successful the district, organised a bid of Tamirabharani and irrigation tanks conservation consciousness programmes similar rallies, seminars etc., which were mostly attended by the students, volunteers and the NGOs moving connected h2o conservation.
When Dr. Karthikeyan excessively joined this ‘relay race’ aft helium assumed bureau successful February 2023, helium perpetually monitored the desilting of Kodaimelazhagiyaan, Nadhiyunni, Kannadiyan and Palayam Channels, each successful the Tamirabharani irrigation system, to guarantee the hassle-free travel of h2o up to the tail-end areas. His streamlining of desilting of some systemised and non-systemised irrigation tanks by actively involving the Revenue and Public Works Departments gave caller beingness to 199 tanks successful the district.
Under his leadership, a broad technological program connected an outlay of ₹660 crore was prepared to cod and dainty liquid discarded flowing into the Tamirabharani to cheque the stream getting polluted arsenic it quenches thirst of millions of colonisation surviving successful 4 confederate districts. He besides inaugurated a cleaning thrust to region garbage, mostly integrative and discarded apparel from the Tamirabharani. This thrust ensured the removal of a fewer 100 tonnes of apparel discarded by devotees successful the Tamirabharani stream astatine Papanasam and on the watercourse of the perennial river.
He besides initiated steps to person the apparel removed from the stream into doormats and different allied products to springiness livelihood to self-help groups.
Despite aggravated absorption from the spiritual outfits, Dr. Karthikeyan was steadfast successful regulating the assemblage participating successful the Aadi Amaavaasai celebrations of Sorimuthu Ayyanar Temple wrong the Kalakkad – Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve and the enactment wrong the sanctuary.
Now, each these corporate efforts by the past 3 District Collectors person won the Centre’s designation which volition beryllium handed implicit connected November 18.
