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Monday, Apr 11, 2005

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Tamil Nadu

Experts team to clear doubts about Veeranam extension

By Our Staff Reporter

PERAMBALUR, APRIL 10. A high-level experts team will conduct a two-day awareness camp from April 12 in villages on the banks of the Coleroon river in Perambalur district to explain the technical details of the extension of the New Veeranam Project.

The State Government planned to execute the project at an outlay of Rs. 300 crores, setting up wells on the banks of the Coleroon on the border of Perambalur and Thanjavur districts.

This is a standby arrangement for supply to Chennai in the event of the Veeranam lake going dry.

The team, led by the Collector, D. Vivekanandan, will comprise Chief Engineers from the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board, Metrowater and the Superintending Engineers from the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and the Public Works Department, Tiruchi.

In a release here today, the Collector said the team would conduct the camp at T. Pazhur and Tirumanur on April 12 and at Sripurandan and Elakurichi the next day.

The team would tell villagers that the extension of the project would not affect the groundwater table in the area, the release said and appealed to them and farmers to attend the camps and get their doubts cleared.

The camp is being conducted following a directive by the Madras High Court, the release added.

Meetings in Thanjavur

Our Thanjavur Staff Reporter writes:

Meetings will be also held at Thiruvaiyaru, Papanasam, Kumbakonam and Thiruvidaimaruthur in Thanjavur district, a release from the Collector, M. Veera Shanmugha Moni, said.

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