Here is good news for residents of wards 19, 26 and 27 as the much-awaited drinking water scheme for them, executed at an outlay of Rs.17.80 crore, is expected to be commissioned before April 15 following a trial run to be conducted within a fortnight.

As final works like connecting the main pipes near the overhead tanks, installing the electric panels in the pump houses, giving facelift to the pump rooms etc. are to be completed, trial run of this ambitious drinking water programme to check for leakages, if any, is to be taken-up within March 25.

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TIRUNELVELI: Even as storage level at Papanasam dam, the mainstay of the district's irrigation system, touched the all-time low of 29 feet against the maximum capacity of 143 feet on Tuesday, isolated rain spell was experienced in some parts of the district in the afternoon.

Though this brief drizzle has sowed hope among the farming

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