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The PAP Vellakovil Branch Canal (Kangayam-Vellakovil) Water Conservation Association connected Monday submitted a petition to Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivaj Singh Chouhan seeking contiguous involution for seeing done modernisation of Parambikulam Aliyar Project, to guarantee pipeline-based organisation and micro-irrigation systems.
The program for concrete-lining indispensable beryllium discarded, and the models successful vogue successful Israel and the Athikadavu-Avinashi strategy indispensable beryllium adopted for rehabilitation nether PAP 2.0. Conventional methods person proved inadequate, relation president P. Velusamy said successful the representation.
Referring to the backing sought by the Tamil Nadu Water Resources Department from the Central Water Commission for the project, Mr. Velusamy urged the Minister to withhold support until the task is comprehensively reviewed and redesigned utilizing precocious engineering solutions that lucifer the contiguous cultivation and climatic needs.
Under the existing PAP system, the water-carrying capableness betwixt dams — particularly the contour canal — is constricted to astir 900 cusecs. To conscionable contiguous and aboriginal irrigation demands, this capableness indispensable beryllium enhanced to astatine slightest 2,000 cusecs to guarantee capable h2o proviso for the farming community, the petition said.
Approximately, farmers cultivating 4.25 lakh acres covering Palar Basin and Aliyar Basin being the nonstop beneficiaries of the project, immoderate sub-optimal solution volition person semipermanent adverse consequences for agriculture successful the region, Mr. Velusamy pointed out.
The long-pending PAP missing sub-projects, including the Anamalaiyar–Nallar, stay unimplemented for astir 7 decades contempt repeated assurances. These projects are important for equitable h2o organisation and cultivation sustainability crossed the basin, the petition said.
Other issues highlighted successful the practice included outgo of compensation astatine marketplace complaint to farmers losing their livestock to attacks by thoroughfare dogs, and wellness hazards and sedate contamination caused to cultivation lands and colony situation owed to dumping of unsegregated wastes by Tiruppur Corporation.
