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Work on TTD's sub-surface dams apace

By Our Special Correspondent

TIRUPATI Nov. 7. Work on the seven sub-surface (SS) dams being executed by the DPAP, Chittoor, with the financial assistance of the TTD across the long Swarnamukhi river is apace. This is in addition to the nine similar sub-surface dams already completed around the same cost across the same river by a consortium of NGOs led by the Rashtriya Seva Samithi with the funds provided by the CAPART.

The CAPART-funded SS dams were taken up as part of a massive programme of the Chittoor district administration for the rejuvenation of the 175-km-long Swarnamukhi river which witnessed unauthorised cultivation and occupation and indiscriminate sand quarrying.

It was precisely to revive the dying river that the Government had taken up construction of the SS dams, using the clay wall and thin-film irrigation technology to improve the groundwater table. With these dams, the TTD can also meet the drinking water scarcity in and around Tirupati.

The TTD's Executive Officer, P. Krishnaiah, accompanied by the Project Director of the DPAP, Ravichandra, on Thursday inspected the dams at Paidipall, Adapareddipalle, Chanambatla, Thondavada, Rangampet, Nagaiahgaripalle and expressed satisfaction at the pace and quality of the work being executed by different NGOs like RASS, SAID, ROSS, CORE, REACH and PASS.

The general secretary of the RASS, which is heading the consortium, said the Union Ministry of Rural Development had sanctioned two integrated watershed programmes in the villages along the river.

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