Water woes persist for farmers as WRD is yet to form apex panel for enforcing Participatory Irrigation Management

Delay successful the enactment of the Apex Committee for enforcing the Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) has upset farmers, particularly those astatine the tail-end locations, wherever h2o organisation is not equitable.

The panel, captious for an effecitve PIM, could not beryllium constituted for the past 3 years arsenic the Water Resources Department (WRD) was yet to implicit the third-term elections for 150 Water User Associations (WUA), 148 distributary committees and 7 Project Committees, nether Water Resources Consolidation Project (WRCP) successful Madurai and Chennai regions.