Vellore Collector R. Nanthagopal has appealed to the public of Agaramcheri village panchayat to ensure that the panchayat should earn the reputation where there will be no house without a hygienic toilet.
Participating in the Grama Sabha meeting held on Republic Day, Mr. Nanthagopal said that individual hygienic toilets should be built in all houses to ensure total sanitation and protect the health of the people. He urged the panchayat to take steps to remove the Prosopis juliflora (`seemai karuvelam’) shrubs that have grown abundantly in the panchayat. This species depletes the groundwater. He urged the people to grow one tree per house in order to induce rainfall. The district has received less rainfall during the North-East monsoon, he said.
M. Manohar Singh, Project Director, District Rural Development Agency, Ravishankarnath, Personal Assistant (Development) to the Collector, Subbiah, Assistant Director of Village Panchayats, Jothi Ramalingaraja, chairperson of the panchayat union and Anbazhagan and Mariam Regina, Block Development Officers participated.
The Collector said that the trial run of the Cauvery Water Supply Scheme envisaging bringing water from the Cauvery River near Mettur has been completed up to Kandili. The water problem of the panchayat would soon be solved, he said.
Later, the Collector participated in a community feast in the Margabandheeswarar Temple in Virinjipuram, along with K. Manivannan, DRO, Manohar Singh and Balaraman, president of Virinjipuram village panchayat.
