VELLORE: The Minister for Law, Courts and Prisons, Durai Murugan, said at Gudiyatham on Tuesday that he had apprised Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi of the acute water problem faced by the people of Vellore district, and that the latter had asked the Public Works Department to take necessary steps to ease the problem.

Mr. Durai Murugan was replying to a request by G.