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The Water Resources Department is understood to person warned the nationalist against fixing pipelines without support crossed the Parambikulam Aliyar Project (PAP) main canal astatine Sultanpet adjacent the Aavin Chilling Centre.
Out of the implicit 15 pipelines fixed crossed the PAP main canal, a fewer person been authorised for proviso of drinking h2o to Varapatti village. Some of the pipelines were laid for question of irrigation h2o from 1 tract to different crossed the main canal.
The section has dismantled 4 pipelines fixed without permission. Other than the ones meant for supplying drinking water, the remainder of the pipelines volition besides beryllium reviewed. Notices person been issued to the farmers who had fixed the pipelines, authoritative sources said.
Old pipelines had to beryllium removed for re-construction of a span by the State Highways Department crossed the main canal for the roadworthy connecting Senjerimalai.
The section had permitted re-fixing of the pipelines by the Varapatti panchayat.
Expressing dismay implicit the “unauthorised” pipelines, farmers successful the tail-end of PAP main canal person attributed specified “arbitrary” acts owed to “political” power arsenic the origin for the shortage successful h2o realisation successful the Kangayam-Vellakoil loop towards the extremity of the 126-km PAP main canal.
