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It is authoritative the Vaigai dam is to beryllium desilted adjacent month, said PWD adjunct enforcement technologist Sekaran astatine the farmers’ grievance redress gathering held successful Theni territory Collectorate connected Friday.
Theni Collector Ranjith Singh presided implicit the meeting. Senior officials from the revenue, forest, WRD, Rural Development and others participated.
When farmers’ relation president Pandian said that the reservoir, built 67 years ago, has been the main root of drinking h2o for 5 districts. Close to 1.36 lakh acres of onshore depended connected the dam for h2o for irrigation. Under specified circumstances, the dam had to beryllium desilted astatine the earliest arsenic the silt deposit was precise high. “Not once, the dam had been cleaned up successful the past....” helium claimed.
Intervening, the Vaigai Dam authoritative said that the TN authorities was informed precocious by the Union authorities that it was capable to get NOC from the State situation section and that determination was nary request for Centre’s clearance.
The State authorities had sent a connection for desilting Mettur, Pechiparai, Vaigai and Amaravathi dam. In the adjacent fewer days, the authorities expected the bid successful manus aft which the desilting would statesman hopefully, helium added.
Expressing satisfaction, galore different farmers’ joined and thanked the medication arsenic the grievance had been raised astir for a decade.
Pointing the media reports erstwhile a husbandman wanted to cognize if the territory medication had returned funds from the THADCO to the State government, the officials said that arsenic it was unutilised, they had returned. When galore SCs were jobless and specified funds could person been offered arsenic brushed loans for acquisition of milch animals, the Collector intervened and assured to analyse the petition and supply assistance successful the ensuing fiscal year.
The wood authorities were keen to evict workplace labourers successful the forests. “Where volition they go...’, G M Nagarajan from the Communist enactment raised the question. The Collector assured that the payment of the communal antheral volition beryllium taken attraction of and said that the authorities would instrumentality each measures.
