Ensures irrigation, enhancement of rain water realisation

PUDUKOTTAI: Work on modernisation of the panchayat tank taken up by the M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) at Thalinji village near Iluppur has started paying dividends.

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joint effort:T. Akilandeswari, panchayat president, explaining the plan to modernise the tank to the officials at Ennai village .

All arrangements have been made to improve drinking water supply in the town said Town Municipal Council president Dr Rahamatulla Khan.

He was speaking after performing the ground breaking ceremony for the water tank being build at a cost of Rs 21 lakh in ward 12. The tank work will be completed in six months and those living in higher altitude will get water, he said.

LUCKNOW: First, it was the question of availability of power. And now, the Lucknow Jal Sansthan (LJS) is in search of the most important component for its two underground water tanks in New Hyderabad and Babuganj: Water!

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A mixture of revenue and well-developed layouts, the Uttarahalli ward craves for basic amenities.

THANJAVUR: World Bank funded Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation of Water Bodies Restoration Management Project (IAMWARM) has helped in popularising vermicompost and pulses, maize and red gram cultivation in Pattukottai and Peravurani areas of Thanjavur district.

Water birds like egrets and cormorants whose natural habitats are tanks and lakes, are finding it difficult to survive in the blazing summer.

Egrets and cormorants have come out of the drying tank in Toopalli village in Srinivsapur taluk. DH Photo