Summary:
The state has taken up traditional restoration of water bodies, Kudimaramath, with the help of local water users across the state. CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government is all set to constitute a Water Resources Conservation and River Restoration Corporation to conceive special projects, prepare detailed project reports and access funding from external agencies such as World Bank to help implement water schemes. An announcement about the corporation will be made soon.Lack of in-house expertise has posed a serious challenge to the state dependent on rivers in neighbouring states for irrigation. Its brief will include immediate intervention in flood mitigation and management, such as checking seawater intrusion, constructing tail-end regulators and strengthening embankments of canals. The public works department will get help from this new state-run corporation to draft innovative schemes and projects to augment water sources.The entity will work on reclaiming tanks and rivers, desilting water bodies and dams, intralinking of rivers and river basins, and strengthening and modernising existing irrigation infrastructure..