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Palakkad
By Our Staff Reporter
PALAKKAD, MARCH 6 . The District Collector, Sanjeev Kaushik, today said that an amount of Rs. 4 crores had been allotted from the Integrated Watershed Development Programme fund for renovating and desilting ponds and wells in Palakkad district. Addressing a press conference here, the Collector said that the district administration would take over some of the borewells under the control of private parties to tide over the acute drinking water scarcity in the district. Already, a few private individuals had come forward to hand over their borewells for providing drinking water in places like Pattambi. He said that 25 new drinking water supply schemes had been sanctioned and 13 pipeline extensions had been carried out in the district to meet the water shortage. Drinking water is now supplied in tanker lorries in different parts of Chittur and Alathur taluks, he said. He said that 400 tubewells had been dug and 700 hand pumps repaired in the district to meet the drinking water requirements.
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