Chennai: Minister of Tamil Nadu M minister M St Stalin on Saturday told the Department of Water Resources to build a Dam check and repair a water body that has not seen restoration for several years and channels to benefit farmers.
He spoke at a review meeting at the secretariat ahead of the budget session.
“The minister’s chairman advises officials to take steps to renovate the body of the water, Destilt and increase the capacity to store complete rainwater.
Water storage facilities, especially Dam checks must be built in districts that have no dam,” the official release said.
The DMK government formed a ministry of water resources, carving wings from the Department of Public Works and senior leaders DMK S Duraimurugan had been given a portfolio.
Stalin reviews projects being carried out through state funds, including special drawing jobs carried out in the area of ​​Cauvery Delta, besides that Athikadavu-Avinashi refills ground water and drinking water supply schemes, Sarabanga raises irrigation schemes to benefit the salroom dry tank launched by Previously the AIADMK regime.
“The minister’s chairmen reviewed the progress of creating a reservoir by increasing the storage of the cattle-thattamanji tank in Tiruvalur, the rise of Lake Kaliveli in Villupuram and Lake Kolavai in Chengalpet, a new dam through borrowing, renovation and recovery of body nabard water,” official release said.
The meeting also saw discussions about the progress of the modernization project of the Tamil Nadu irrigation agriculture funded by the ongoing World Bank, the Rehabilitation Project and Increasing Dam, Inter-Linking of Cauvery-Gundar, Extension, Renovation, Modernization of the Notyy River System, Kattalai Channels and Violackal Kings and Branches -Cabang, Bhavani Lower, Grand Anicut and Cauvery Sub-Basin, and Construction of Mukkombu Regulators, Barrage in Adhanur-Kumaramangalam and Nanjai Pugalur in Karur.