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Licence needed to sink new tubewells

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, MARCH 3. The Pondicherry Groundwater Authority today said that licences should be obtained to sink new tubewells or replace old ones.

Farmers, government departments, industrial entrepreneurs and others in Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam can apply to the Authority to get the permits.

The Member-Secretary, S. Sekar, in a release said the applications should be submitted within 120 days from the date of publication of the notification in the State Gazette (February 22) by remitting the prescribed fees.

Licence should also be obtained for sinking wells or installing devices for extraction and transportation of groundwater.

The forms can be obtained from the office of the Authority at the Directorate of Agriculture, at Uzhavar Udhaviyagams, Farm Clinics and Water Users Associations.

The Authority has also launched a website (www.pondicherryagri.org) detailing the Act and the Rules framed hereunder. Applications can be downloaded through the website, he said.

The Authority was constituted under the Pondicherry Groundwater (Control and Regulation) Act, 2002.

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