Call to benefit from cluster development programme
PERAMBALUR: Beneficiaries of ‘free, two-acre land’ scheme should form irrigation societies for the implementation of the ‘cluster development programme’ by various departments and agencies, State School Education Secretary and Zonal Commissioner for Perambalur district M. Kutralingam said.
Addressing the beneficiaries at Arumbavur near here on Wednesday, he said that 124 acre of wasteland had been identified in the area for distribution to landless agricultural labourers.
Since the wasteland lay in a continuous stretch between Arumbavur and Kottarakundru, various governmental agencies would co-ordinate for the implementation of the cluster development programme.
While the Agricultural Engineering Department would dig deep borewells, the Agriculture and Horticulture Departments would distribute saplings suited to the soil. “All these will be provided free of cost,” he said.
The agricultural labourers should float an irrigation society and each society should have an ayacut of 50 acres, he said.
Earlier, he inspected the land reclaimed at Arumbavur. He also distributed maize saplings to the beneficiaries.
31 acre distributed
Collector Anil Meshram said that the Agricultural Engineering Department had reclaimed about 31 acres which had been distributed to 21 farmers.
District Revenue Officer B. Sankar; Project Officer, District Rural Development Agency, S. Iyyaru and the Joint Director of Agriculture (in-charge) R. Durairaj were among those who were present.
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