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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Tamil Nadu Revives Ancient Community De-Silting Of Lakes, Tanks Tamil Nadu -J Sam Daniel Stalin

Tamil Nadu Revives Ancient Community De-Silting Of Lakes, Tanks Tamil Nadu -J Sam Daniel Stalin

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published Published on Mar 15, 2017   modified Modified on Mar 15, 2017
-NDTV

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government today revived a traditional water resource management system involving public in the state's worst drought in more than a century.

The government has taken the initiative to revive the 'Kudimaramathu' tradition that involves engaging farmers and local people to de-silt and look after tanks and ponds with a budget of Rs. 100 crore.

K Sundaram, a small farmer at Manimangalam in Kancheepuram district, who has joined the initiative says that it will ensure proper supply of water for irrigation. "This will help store more water in lakes, and this will in turn help us get more water for irrigation, which means more crop," he said.

'Kudimaramathu' is a practice where farmers have to remove weeds and deepen the lake to ensure proper supply of water for irrigation.

The initiative has seen positive response from farmers like S Rajee who cultivates paddy in over 10 acres of land. He feels the project will receive good response from the people.

There's an incentive too for farmers who are part of the initiative. In many areas farmers like S Rajee can take limited loads of nutrition-rich silt to their farmland. "Earlier people wouldn't come or would come for name sake. Now there would be ownership and common good. People would willingly come to work in village water bodies," says Mr Rajee. He believes that the project will ensure adequate water supply even during drought unlike the crop loss he suffered two years ago due to drought.

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NDTV, 14 March, 2017, http://www.ndtv.com/tamil-nadu-news/tamil-nadu-revives-ancient-community-de-silting-of-lakes-tanks-1669178


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