Summary:
Thoothukudi farmers complain that the PWD officials were yet to divert surplus water to the dry regions of Nazareth, Sattankulam and Udankudi. However, flood water in the Tamirabharani and the Chittar, which joins with the Tamirabharani beyond Gangaikondan, was yet to be utilised properly, the farmers complain. Though there was no sign of flood water being diverted to the irrigation tanks, the PWD officials claimed that the system tanks were getting filled-up one after the other and the exercise would take a few more days to get completed. The Thoothukudi district farmers complain that the PWD officials were yet to open the shutters to divert surplus water to the dry regions of Nazareth, Sattankulam and Udankudi, where the irrigation tanks are bone dry while thousands of cusecs of flood water was going waste into the sea. “The water being wasted can be diverted to these dry regions via the Sadayaneri channel..