Students and teaching staff of Chikkanna Government Arts College here are wearing broad smiles of satisfaction as their timely effort of creating a pond to hold water in anticipation of the monsoon and recharge groundwater table, has fructified.
The pond now holds good amount of water received through the spells of rain experienced in the city over the past few days.
The structure, created over an expanse of nearly 30 cents of land situated on one corner of the 35 acre college campus, was set up recently as joint effort of nearly 100 students who were the members of the college NSS unit and A. Mohankumar, an Assistant Professor of Zoology who heads the NSS unit.
“We have created the pond in quick time as weather managers have started predicting rain by August first week. The main objective was to recharge the groundwater table by holding the water since the depletion in the groundwater level has been a concern in the region,” pointed out Mr. Mohankumar.
It took just four days to create the pond. The recharging of the groundwater table will also be helping the college authorities apart from the people in the vicinity, in the long run as the same could be drawn with the help of borewells to water the 1,500 plants in the two gardens set up on the campus. “We have the gardens spread over five acres that have herbal plants and varieties that cleanse the atmosphere the maximum,” he added.
