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Thoothukudi Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi connected Saturday laid the instauration for widening of Buckle Canal, 1 of the superior stormwater drains successful the district. She besides inaugurated different completed projects .
The widening enactment of the canal is being undertaken astatine an estimated outgo of ₹53 crore.
The seven-km canal, constructed during the assemblage period, serves arsenic the large stormwater drainage canal for managing floodwaters during the monsoon. It originates adjacent Food Corporation of India’s godown and drains into the Bay of Bengal astatine Therespuram.
The 2023 floods successful Thoothukudi exposed the functional constraints of the canal, mostly owed to manmade reasons specified arsenic sewage intrusions and wastes clogging the waterbody. Thoothukudi Corporation has been taking assorted measures, including desilting of the canal, preventing discarded dumping and suspending amerciable sewage connections to guarantee escaped travel of water.
In enactment with these measures, the Corporation has initiated the canal widening task to heighten its carrying capacity.
A Corporation authoritative said the canal had a width of 7 metres, which would beryllium widened by an further 5 metres on its full stretch. The canal’s floodwater carrying capacity, which was astir 29 cusecs now, would summation to astir 50 cusecs aft the widening.
The MP besides inaugurated assorted different projects including a toilet analyzable built astatine a outgo of ₹94.57 lakh astatine Sivanthakulam Corporation School nether the Corporate Social Responsibility money of NLC Tamil Nadu Power Limited.
Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Minister P. Geetha Jeevan, Collector K. Elambahavath, Mayor Jegan Periyasamy, Corporation Commissioner S. Priyanka and different officials were present.
