TIRUNELVELI
Even as residents of Thoothukudi, being fed by the Tamirabharani, are now getting drinking water supply once in 15 days owing to drastically dwindled flow in the perennial river, a group of farmers from Cheranmahadevi submitted a petition to Collector Shilpa Prabhakar Satish on Monday seeking release of water from the dams for paddy cultivation and to save their cattle.
Agriculturists affiliated to Kannadiyan Channel Farmers’ Association, in their petition, said water was yet to be released from Papanasam Dam for commencing the farming operation of ‘kar’ paddy season. Since the dam now has water for about 60 feet, water should be released from the reservoir for ‘kar’ paddy cultivation and also to save the cattle.
Interior roads sought
Residents of various colonies within KTC Nagar on Palayamkottai outskirts submitted a petition seeking proper interior roads. The petitioners, mostly from Brindhavan Nagar, said most of the colonies within KTC Nagar had not been well connected by interior roads, forcing the road users to commute through the mud roads. Moreover, the badly damaged main roads had not been re-laid for the past several years and hence accidents had become everyday affair in these colonies.
Hence, the Collector should instruct the Corporation officials to lay the road properly for the benefit of the public, the petitioners said.
‘Supply water’
Demanding regular supply of drinking water to their hamlet, a group of women from Kuththukkal near Palayamkottai, all carrying empty pots, staged demonstration in front of the Collectroate and submitted petition.
“We’re battling with drinking water crisis for the past one year and our repeated petitions to the Palayamkottai Union officials have not resolved our crisis. Hence, we’re seeking the Collector’s direct intervention,” the petitioners said.
Encroachment
Residents of Nallamaalpuram near Thenkalam submitted a petition narrating the encroachment of a public utility land in their hamlet by a few individuals enjoying political and caste backing and their attempts to slicing it into housing plots by obtaining fake ‘patta’. Besides thwarting this attempt, the officials concerned should be directed to retrieve the land by evicting the encroachments, the villagers said.
‘Desilt tank’
Led by Congress party’s Tirunelveli east district president S.K.M. Sivakumar, the party functionaries submitted a petition seeking the Collector’s permission for desilting an irrigation tank near Nanguneri.
