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In a affirmative move, the Water Resource Department (WRD) has begun the preparations for repair enactment of sluice astatine ‘Periyakulam’ successful Thazhakudy, which supports the irrigation of implicit 700 acres of cultivation lands successful the region.
The sluice astatine the vessel has remained damaged for respective years, making it hard to proviso irrigation h2o to hundreds of acres of cultivation lands.
For years, husbandman representatives from Nanjil Nadu Puthanar Canal users relation and different associations had been consistently raising demands for its repair.
Responding to these demands, WRD has present initiated arrangements to repair the sluice and instal a caller screw gearing shutter, with the enactment expected to beryllium completed wrong a fewer weeks.
Chenbagasekara Pillai, a husbandman from Thuvarankadu, said that earlier radical utilized to aquatics into the vessel to manually unfastened the sluice. Over time, the operation became damaged and with fewer radical capable to undertake specified tasks, h2o regularisation became highly difficult.
He welcomed the installation of a caller screw geared shutter.
However, since the sluice is located successful a debased lying area, the repair enactment tin beryllium carried retired aft wholly draining the h2o from the tank. Accordingly, irrigation section authorities began the process of draining the tank.
A.Wins Anto, chairperson, Kodhayar Irrigation Project Committee said that astir ₹15 lakh has been allocated for the project, and the last figures would beryllium confirmed successful the coming days. He added that farmers besides met the State highways section authorities and requested arrangements for impermanent diversion of vehicles, arsenic the postulation on the roadworthy connected the vessel bund volition beryllium affected during the repair work.
