It must be ensured that members of Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) committees in all panchayat unions should be from the farming community and not from political parties, demanded farmers at the monthly grievance day meeting held at the Collectorate here on Friday.
It was informed at the meeting, presided over by Collector Sajjansingh R. Chavan, that inter-crops would be included in ‘adangal’ document and instruction to this effect conveyed to the village administrative officers.
In reply to a demand by Sri Krishna Perumal of Puthalam, the Executive Engineer of the Public Works Department (PWD) said that public had been asked not to dump garbage into north madai of Palkulam. Notices were issued to two house owners adjacent to the water body by the Puthalam town panchayat on June 4.
Devadoss of Ramanathapuram sought fishing auction details for ponds in Kalkulam taluk. An official replied that the fishing rights given to various individuals had been cancelled by the Padmanabhapuram RDO on September 19, 2014. Fishing rights for all the ponds and water bodies of the PWD would be auctioned next month.
Mr. Devadoss said that his repeated demands to survey the Uchikkal water channel in Vellichandai ‘B’ village to evict encroachments were in vain. He said that government lands adjacent to water channels must be protected from further encroachment.
Vins Antro of Vellicode demanded eviction of encroachments along AVM Channel and auctioning of trees that could earn revenue. To another query, an official said that a proposal to resurvey all revenue villages had been sent to the government for approval.
Joint Director of Agriculture Elango, Personal Assistant to Collector (Agriculture) R. Nizamuddin and Executive Engineer (WRO-PWD) Subramanian participated.
