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Plea to desilt irrigation tanks

PUDUKOTTAI: Agriculturists who participated in the monthly Farmers’ Grievances Day meeting held here on Friday urged the district administration to take steps for desilting minor irrigation tanks in the district.

They said that with the district accounting for a large number of minor irrigation tanks, the task should be entrusted to the Public Works Department.

The District chairman of Farmers’ Forum of India G. S. Dhanapathy said there were a little over 2,800 tanks, each having an ayacut of at least 50 acres. As per norms, these tanks should be desilted by the village panchayats.

But, due to paucity of funds, the local bodies were finding it difficult to de-silt the same, he said adding that the formation of silt had resulted in poor irrigational facilities in major parts of the district.

Collector D. Uthirakkumaran, who presided over the meeting, said he would look into the demand.

District secretary of the CPI-led Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam S. P. Muthukumaran pleaded for ensuring transparency in the selection of beneficiaries under the ‘Free Land Scheme.’

Welcoming the discharge of waters to the tail-end areas through the Grand Anicut Canal, he pleaded for a periodical monitoring of the quantum of discharge.

President of Pudukottai District Federation of Grand Anicut Canal Ayacutdars Associations A. Ramasamy said that steps should be taken for constructing concrete weirs to check the wasteful discharge of waters into the Bay of Bengal.

A farmer of Rarapuram pleaded for immediate action to check monkey menace in villages in and around Tirumayam. The animals caused extensive damage to paddy and groundnut.

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