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Minister for Housing, Prohibition and Excise S. Muthusamy has asked the Water Resources Department (WRD) to survey an alternate alignment for a caller aqueduct truthful that the existing aqueduct of the Kalingarayan Canal is not demolished.
The aqueduct astatine the 13.7-mile mark of the canal, besides known as Karai Vaikkal or Thotti Palam, is believed to beryllium the State’s earliest aqueduct. It was constructed by Kongu chieftain Kalingarayan between 1270 and 1282 and is inactive successful use. The aqueduct is portion of the 91.10-km-long Kalingarayan Canal, which links the Bhavani River at Kalingarayanpalayam with the Noyyal River at Kodumudi.
