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it out An old project that was put on the back burner, deserves relook, say experts In 1969, the government evolved a scheme to im pound 7.4 tmc water from the upper reaches of Vaigai river to benefit Virudhunagar and other areas in irrigation and provide drinking water.
The project did not re quire consent of any upper riparian State as the river originates and ends within Tamil Nadu.

Called the Azhagar val ley project, it was dropped in 1976 Green light In this link (Kattalai) no major environmental issues are involved. No waterlogging is expected since the canal runs through water short areas.

Rather, it will be beneficial in recharging the groundwater in the region — National Water Development Agency, Union Water Resources Ministry The total renewable water resources as of 2001 correspond to about 1820 kilo litres (KL) of water per person per year. The population of India is expected to stabilize at around 1500-1800 million by 2050 when the per capita availability of water would further come down to nearly 60 per cent of the availability in 2001. At that time, the per capita availability in the Brahmaputra basin would still be around 9000 KL and in the Sabarmati basin below 200 KL. This is against the minimum requirement of 1000 KL per person per year.

— Excerpts from a paper prepared by the Task Force on Interlinking of Rivers in the country Inter-State water disputes and the political agendas of State governments on managing water resources have put the ambitious programme of creating a national river water grid on the back burner. But Tamil Nadu decided to give it a push. On June 25 this year, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi took the first step to create a State river water grid by launching a project to build a barrage on the Cauvery at Kattalai in Tiruchy.

The idea is to maximise use of water resources by diverting Cauvery floodwater from Kattalai to the Agniar, South Vellar, Manimuthar, Vaigai and Gundar rivers, through a 255 km long gravity link canal. The canal will also link Ariyar and Koriyar, two tributaries of the Cauvery.

This will help cultivation in 2,20,424 acres in four droughtprone districts - Pudukottai, Sivaganga, Ramanathapuram and Virudhunagar. The capacity of the proposed canal is 6,300 cusecs and its alignment is almost the same as that proposed by the National Water Development Agency (NWDA).

The project requires 2,228 hectare patta land, 40 hectare forestland and 1,416 hectare poramboke land. The land is yet to be acquired.

The project is to be implemented in three phases. First, the Kattalai barrage will come up, which will serve as the headwork structure for the link canal. Next, the canal will be constructed from Kattalai barrage up to Manimuthar river in Sivaganga district. Finally, the link canal will be extended from Manimuthar to Gundar.

The whole project is expected to cost Rs 3,750 crore. The State government wants the Union Government to foot 90 per cent of the bill. The Centre has already agreed to provide funds for intra-linking of rivers in states under the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme. The cost of constructing the Kattalai barrage alone has been pegged at Rs 165 crore.

According to the NWDA, no major environmental issues are involved in this link. "No waterlogging is expected since the canal runs through water-short areas. Rather, it will be beneficial in recharging the groundwater in the region."

The Kattalai barrage will create a small reservoir of 1.04 tmcft capacity. The 255 km link canal can carry 5.4 tmcft of water over 10 days in a year.

The project will create employment opportunities for thousands of people. It will also help recharge the groundwater aquifers in the region.

Tamil Nadu has taken the lead in building intra-river water links. Perhaps other water deficient states can take a leaf out of the State's book.

Tomorrow: Experts’ take Projects in pipeline LINKING THE 1 PENNAIYAR WITH THE CHEYYAR The proposal envisages a 25 km link canal to connect the Pennaiyar with the Palar through the Cheyyar in Tiruvanna malai district. The gravity canal will originate from the Sathanur reservoir and end at the Cheyyar on the down stream side of Alathur Anaicut. The ca pacity of the proposed canal is 3,070 cusecs. The canal can carry 265 mcft surplus water in a day. The scheme will benefit over 46,000 acre in the region.

LAND REQUIRED:

715.47 ACRE PROJECT COST: AROUND RS 176 CRORE THAMIRABARANI 2 TRIBUTARIES, KARUMENIYAR AND NAMBIYAR It links two tributaries of the Thamirabarani — Pachaiyar and Kodumudiyar — and interlinks the Karumeniyar and Nambiyar river basins through canals. It aims to tap the dependable flood surplus at Kannadian anaicut without af fecting the existing irrigation water that is used from the Thamirabarani. It will benefit 23,040 hectare in the region. The groundwater level in the nearby wells will also be recharged.

http://epaper.newindpress.com/Default.aspx?selpg=1334&selDt=07/14/2008&BMode=100

Tamil Nadu to take up two river linking projects

T. Ramakrishnan


CHENNAI: The State government will take up two projects to link rivers flowing within the territory of Tamil Nadu during 2008-2009.

The projects, aimed at transferring surplus water to water deficit areas, are the Cauvery-Agniar-Koraiyar-Pambar-Vaigai-Gundar and the Tamiraparani-Karumeniyar-Nambiar interlinking schemes.

Announcing this in the Assembly on Thursday, Finance Minister K. Anbazhagan said the Kattalai barrage would be constructed across the Cauvery at a cost of Rs.165 crore. In the next phase, works for digging a 255-km-long canal, linking all the six rivers, would be executed.

Costing Rs.369 crore, the other scheme involved diversion of surplus water of the Tamiraparani to water-deficit areas in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts. Mr. Anbazhagan said in the absence of consensus on the implementation of the programme, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had sought Central assistance for linking intra-State rivers. The National Development Council, which had accepted his request, had resolved to provide such assistance under the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP).

Recharge structures


To rectify overexploitation of groundwater, the government had conceived a major scheme for building 48,500 recharge structures such as check dams and percolation ponds.

It would be executed at an estimated cost of Rs.550 crore in 2008-2009. A sum of Rs.100 crore had been allocated in this year’s budget.

Stating that the World Bank-aided Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Restoration and Management Project (IAMWARM) would be extended to 16 more sub-basins in addition to the existing nine, Mr. Anbazhagan said it would now benefit 9.4 lakh acres. A sum of Rs.585 crore had been allocated for IAMWARM in 2008-2009.

The Grand Anaicut canal and Kalingarayan canal would be desilted at a cost of Rs.150 crore and Rs.12 crore. While the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development approved a Rs.12-crore scheme for flood prevention in Madurai city, permanent protection works against floods in the Cauvery and the Coleroon would be carried out in Karur, Tiruchi, Ariyalur and Perambalur districts at a cost of Rs.211 crore.

Works under the Rs.616-crore Ramanathapuram combined water supply scheme were being executed on a fast track mode.

www.hindu.com/2008/03/21/stories/2008032160171200.htm

Tamil Nadu to be model for river linking’
Wednesday June 25 2008 10:01 IST
Express News Service

TIRUCHY: By taking steps to inter-link the rivers within the State, Tamil Nadu would become a model for other States and the Centre to emulate, said Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, here on Tuesday.

Speaking at a government function, after inaugurating various development programmes, the Chief Minister said, usually water scarcity in Tamil Nadu increased day by day since there were no perennial rivers.

Inter-linking of the water resources within the state was the need of the hour and the State government had allotted Rs 165 crore for constructing the barrage so that the surplus water could be stored, he said.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IET20080624234023

So this government laid the first foundation for linking of rivers! Hope the remaining project linking of Cauvery and Gundar via Vaigai get funds and works starts in the same government.

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^^

Arul,

Superu!!

Arul, keep posting some important (most) project news like this...

Hope, This project will get importance in MK period and kickoff for real groundwork activities ....

Arul is an allrounder aiming for all round development of TN hats off....:)

Dear Friends,

I am happy to see your comments. Very much thanks.

I have just pasted the information from Indian express news paper. All credits goes to them, even tamil dailies never gave such a wonderful information on linking of rivers in TN so far. I searched for official information from Tamilnadu gvt website, but again no information.

We should thank Indian express news paper in bring up this major project in their edition.

If this project comes into reality, i am sure MK will find a place in history of Tamilnadu like Karikalan who built Kallanai dam.

http://nwda.gov.in/writereaddata/sublinkimages/11.jpg

From NWDA.GOV.IN

As per the above map Cauvery is proposed to link with Godavari and Krishna some where near Thiruvarur, If that is the case how it is possible to bring Godavari/Krishna water to Vaigai through Kattalai Barrage in Karur dt?

Here is the feasibilty report on this project from NWDA.

Is TN gvt going for the project with this report or separate wing?

http://nwda.gov.in/index3.asp?sublink2id=46&langid=1

TIRUNELVELI: Another intra-river linking project in the State is expected to take off shortly as the State Government has released Rs 50 crore for the first phase of the project.

The project involves linking the Tamirabarani, Nambiyar and Karumaeniyar rivers in Tirunelveli district to divert floodwater to the rain deficient districts of Radhapuram, Nanguneri and Sattankulam taluks.

Making the announcement here on Friday, District Collector (in charge), G Srinivasan, said a Government Order to this effect was issued in the last week of June.

The State Government has already given administrative sanction for the Rs 369-crore intra-river linking project.

“The project requires 600 hectares of land. The Public Works Department (PWD) needs to take steps to acquire it. The money released by the government will help the PWD do so. Land losers will be suitably compensated,” Srinivasan said.

“Construction can be completed within a year after the land is acquired,” he added. This is the second intra-river linking project that is on the fast track. Chief Minister M Karunanidhi launched the first one last month.

It involved constructing a 255 km canal that would link the Cauvery with various rivers in the southern districts.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IET20080719024051&Page=T&Title=Southern+News+%2D+Tamil+Nadu&Topic=0

Tiruchirapalli, Aug 23 : Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary L K Tripathy had instructed the Public Works Department(PWD) officials to expedite the project on inter-linking of the State rivers.


The foundation stone for the project was laid recently by the Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, which envisages construction of the barrage across the Cauvery at Mayanur and harnessing of the excess flow by linking the river with Agniyar, Koraiyar, Vaigai and Gundar.

Addressing a review meeting here yesterday, the Chief Minister instructed the officials to remove encroachments on water bodies.

They should maintain a close vigil against the illegal sand mining from river beds and an awareness campaign should be initiated on rain water harvesting, he added.

Mr Karunanidhi also directed the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board to expedite the Ramanathapuram combined Drinking Water Supply scheme project. The Agriculture Department should propagate the information about the rice intensification system among the farmers, he added.

He asked the district administration to remain alert by taking precautionary measures during the monsoon. District officials should ensure that roads laid through various projects conformed to the quality standards, the TN CM added

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-14394.html

When politicians can amass so much wealth, forget about developing the country with any kind of infrastructure.
Comments welcome. Pass the info around to friends & family at least some awareness should wake up our people .

Tenders invited for first phase of river linking
Tenders have been invited for the first phase of the proposed linking of Cauvery and Kundar rivers (225 km), to be executed at an estimated cost of Rs 165 crore, according PWD Principal Secretary Tamil Nadu S Adiseshiah.

He told newspersons here that the tenders would be finalised shortly. In the second phase to be executed during the current fiscal year, the Tamirabarani and the Karumeniyar would be linked, spending Rs 369 crore. A notification has been issued for tenders. Work on linking Sathanur and Cheyyar rivers would be taken up next year, he added. Asked about the delay in executing the proposed Rs 253 crore flood prevention project to be implemented in and around Tiruchirapalli, he said the work would begin in a month. Tenders for flood prevention work in Cauvery, Coleroon, Kudamuritti, Koraiyar and the Nattu Vaikkal at Srirangam had been finalised. He said the PWD had also prepared a project for improving irrigational infrastructure in the Cauvery delta region.

Meanwhile, Chairman and Managing Director of Agriculture Insurance Company of India, M Parshad said 5.60 lakh farmers had been covered in the state under National Agriculture Insurance Scheme during 2007-08 as against 9.10 lakh farmers in the last six years.

http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20081006/1071644.html

Three-year timeframe fixed for completing the work in four stages

Project envisages utilisation of 2.8 tmcft. excess water

Carrying capacity of Kannadian channel to be increased

CHENNAI: The State government on Friday issued an order clearing the execution of the Rs.369-crore project to link the Tamiraparani with Karumeniyar and Nambiyar rivers in 72 packages in four stages.

The project envisages utilisation of 2.8 thousand million cubic feet of excess water of the Tamiraparani, which goes waste. A time frame of three years has been fixed for completing it.

In addition to increasing the carrying capacity of the Kannadian channel, a flood carrier channel will be formed over a distance of about 65 km. This is to divert the excess water of the Tamiraparani to Karumeniyar, Pachayar and Nambiyar.

In anticipation of assistance under the Central government’s Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP), the State government has devised the project.

By diverting the surplus water, the Pachaiyar-Manimuthar main canal and tail end of the Karumeniyar-Nambiyar irrigation systems will be benefited. Also, Sathankulam and Thisayanvilai of Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts will witness improvement in their groundwater tables.

Around 17,000 hectares will be added to the total irrigated area. Totally, about 23,000 hectares of irrigated area will be benefited. The net addition in paddy production will be around 1.8 lakh tonnes.
Anicut to be improved

According to the order, the Kannadian anicut across the Tamiraparani, will be improved, apart from increasing the carrying capacity of the Kannadian channel and excavating the flood carrier channel. A number of link and supply channels will be formed. Two check dams, one upstream of Sathankulam and the other downstream, will be constructed.

The order stipulated conditions for smooth execution of the project. The works should be taken up in a geographically contiguous manner.

Tamil Nadu has been pressing the Centre to go in for interlinking of rivers in the country which, the State feels, is the only solution to the problem of inter-State river water disputes. Two years ago, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had made an appeal at a meeting of the National Development Council for financial assistance to projects for linking of intra-State rivers, as there was no consensus on the implementation of interlinking of rivers.

Accepting this request, the Council had resolved to provide such assistance under the AIBP.

http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/01/stories/2008110154080400.htm

Tenders for Cauvery-Kattalai-Gundaru linking a 169cr project, is under process:

Source: http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2008/11/03/tn-tendors-will-be-issued-soon-for-inter-linking-rivers.html

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Yesterday Kalainar TV reported that Foundation Stone for river linking project on Feb 05.

It will divert surplus water to Tuticorin, Tirunelveli districts

CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will lay the foundation stone on February 9 for the Rs.369-crore project to interlink the Tamirabarani river with the Karumeniyar and Nambiar, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala told the Assembly on Wednesday. The project envisaged diversion of surplus water of the Tamirabarani to dry areas in Tuticorin and Tirunelveli districts.

The Governor said that work on construction of a barrage across the Cauvery at Kattalai at a cost of Rs.165 crore was about to commence. This would mark the first phase of the Cauvery-Gundar interlinking project for taking surplus floodwaters of the Cauvery to water-deficit areas.

Calling upon the Centre to provide necessary financial assistance for the projects immediately, Mr. Barnala recalled the Chief Minister’s appeal to the Centre at the National Development Council meeting in December 2007 for supporting the interlinking projects of intra-State rivers initially, pending implementation of the programme for interlinking inter-State rivers as a solution to inter-State water disputes.

The Rs.616-crore Ramanathapuram Combined Water Supply Scheme to address the water needs of dry areas of Ramanathapuram, Sivagangai and Pudukkottai districts, would be completed by April this year.

To prevent flooding of Chennai city, a major project at an estimated cost of Rs.1,560 crore had been prepared. Approval had been obtained for works to the tune of Rs.690 crore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.

The works would be taken up this year. For tackling flooding in the Cauvery and Kollidam rivers, works for Rs.211 crore were under way in the Karur, Tiruchi, Ariyalur and Perambalur districts.

There was a “substantial improvement” in the power situation since last month, as a result of the government’s efforts to improve the supply through “efficient management” of power generating stations of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) and purchase of power from other States and private producers, the Governor said.

In the current year, the State would get 925 megawatt (MW), being its share from the Koodankulam Atomic Power Plant, which was about to be commissioned.

It would also receive 325 MW from an expansion project of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation, he said, referring to the capacity addition projects at Mettur and North Chennai thermal power stations.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/22/stories/2009012260480500.htm

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CHENNAI/TIRUNELVELI: The Rs. 369-crore Tamiraparani-Karumeniyar-Nambiyar river interlinking project seeks to utilise about 20 per cent of the surplus quantum of 13.76 thousand million cubic feet, available on an average annually, in the Tamiraparani river.

Under the project, 2.765 tmcft of surplus water will be diverted through the existing Kannadian channel and the formation of a canal. The 6.5-km-long Kannadian channel’s carrying capacity will be increased from 450 cubic feet per second (cusecs) to 3,680 cusecs. A canal will be formed for 73 km, terminating with M.L. Theri, which is a sand dune. The canal can carry 3,200 cusecs of water.

Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will lay the foundation stone for the project at Palyamkottai on February 9.

As part of the project, the Kannadian anicut’s discharging efficiency will be improved. There will be a number of link canals that will connect the 73-km-long canal with a host of tanks in the basins of Karumeniyar and Nambiyar and the Manimuthar river’s distributory. The main canal will link with the river Pachayar. The project will benefit 50 villages in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts, of which five villages are in Palyamkottai taluk; 17 in Nanguneri taluk; 10 in Radhapuram taluk; 16 in Sathankulam taluk and two in Tiruchendur taluk. Irrigation facilities will be provided to about 23,040 hectares in the two districts.

According to officials of the Water Resources Department, the project envisages halting the progress of sea water intrusion and helping the groundwater table’s recharge. The drinking water requirements of people in the dry regions of Sathankulam and Tisayanvilai will also be met. Of about 1,076 hectares of land to be acquired, 994 hectares fall under the category of dry land and 14.5 hectares under wet land. About 68 hectares belong to poromboke. The officials are confident that the project will be completed in three years. It will be implemented in four phases with each phase containing 18 packages. Bids for nine packages were opened on Wednesday and 18 firms responded. The bids for the remaining packages will be opened on February 12 and the work order for all will be issued by the end of next month.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/25/stories/2009012554280400.htm

TIRUNELVELI: Public Works Department Minister S. Durai Murugan will be visiting on February 4 the places where the flood carrier channel is to be dug for taking surplus water of Tamirabharani, thereby connecting the Tamirabharani, Karumaeniyar and Nambiyar rivers.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/27/stories/2009012759020600.htm

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Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will lay the foundation stone for the project at Palyamkottai on February 9.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/25/stories/2009012554280400.htm

I think this didn't happen!!

Anyway in the financial year 2009-2010, 200INR crore allotted for this project.

http://tm.dinakaran.com/showxml.aspx?id=176520&code=18756

Dam construction near Karur:

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http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/21/stories/2009092155260700.htm

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The usually tranquil stretch south of Piraancherry near Palayamkottai is now busy with nearly a dozen humming heavy earthmovers and good number of tipper lorries carrying the excavated boulders as work on the construction of the 72 km-long channel to take the surplus water of Tamirabharani to Karumaeniyar and Nambiyar has moved to top gear.

The project has been designed by the State Government on a massive outlay of Rs. 369 crore to take the excess water of the perennial river to the rain shadow regions of Nanguneri and Radhapuram taluks in Tirunelveli district and Sattankulam taluk in Tuticorin district.

After it was estimated that 13,758 million cubic feet (mcft) was wasted during every rainy season, it was decided to excavate a flood carrier canal from the existing Kannadian Channel at Vellankuzhi near Cheranmahadevi in Tirunelveli district to the drought prone area of Nanguneri, Thisaiyanvilai, Radhapuram and Sattankulam by interlinking Tamirabharani, Karumeniyar and Nambiyar rivers.

From Kannadiyan Channel, the Tamirabharani’s surplus water of only 2,765 mcft would be taken to the irrigation tanks at Suviseshapuram, Pattancherry, Vijayaachchampaadu, Singachaavadi, Subramaniyapuram, Puthukkualm, Kalkulam, Nanthankulam, Yerumaikulam, Avichchaankulam, Aayankulampadugai, Aanaikudipadugai, Ilaikulam, Kadakulam, Puththantharuvai and M.L. Thaeri.

Connecting channels

Connecting channels would be dug between the flood carrier channel and the Karumaeniyar (5,350 metre), the Nambiyar (6,700 metre) and the Manimuthar (2,500 metre). Two check-dams at Maelodai and Keezhodai on the Sattankulam- Nazareth stretch would be constructed.

Once this Rs. 369 crore-project, to be executed in 72 packages, is completed, the surplus water of the Tamirabharani will irrigate 5,059 hectares (12,500 acre), quench the thirst of several lakhs of population and dramatically improve the groundwater table and provide succour to the crops of this rain shadow region.

In the first package, contract for excavating the channel for 20 km has been awarded to a few companies which are working round-the-clock as they have to complete it before 30 months from the date of commencement.

“High priority” for next phase of inter-linking rivers

As many as 18 dams in Tamil Nadu will be covered this year under the “Dam rehabilitation and improvement project” being implemented with World Bank assistance and the next phase of inter-linking of rivers in the State will also begin.

Announcing this in the budget, the State Government has said that the Government of India has given an in-principle approval for about Rs.745 crore to be spent over a period of six years from 2011 covering 104 dams under this project.

Stressing that inter-linking of rivers within the State is a “high priority” of the government, it has pointed out that as the first phase of linking the Cauvery with the Vaigai and the Gundar, Kattalai barrage work across the Cauvery is already in progress at Rs.189 crore.

In the next phase, work to link the Gundar with Kattalai barrage will be initiated. This will be taken up in two stages as flood management works with the Central Government support.

In the first stage, Kattalai barrage will be linked to Agniyar, South Vellar to Manimuthar at Rs.3,787 crore. In the second stage, Manimuthar will be linked with Vaigai and Gundar at Rs.1,379 crore.

“A comprehensive proposal for a flood control programme at a cost of Rs.5,166 crore will be sent to the Government of India, but the State will commence the work immediately and Rs. 60 crore has been provided during 2011-12”.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2323784.ece

So tamiraibharani-mabhiyar is 369 cr. how much it got in 2009 2010 budgets?

has got 90 cr this yr. atleast finish this in 1 or 2yrs.

this budget doesnt speak on palar-cheyyar-pennai link?

arul,

u said 200 cr in 2009. was it for tamiraibharani or for entire river linking including kattali?
how much in 2010?

Who said Thamaraparani is perennial? The farmers along the river belt should protest this move and make sure they are not affected or else, they will loose their precious resource and may need to migrate to cities.

For a moment, I thought that Rasna Boy is back.

We miss his postings.

Kanna sir,

can we rename this thread as "Tamilnadu River Linking, Dams, Canal, Irrigation project Updates"??

I will do it from my Lappy tomorrow.

I am not very comfortable in editing with my mobile

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Hi Kannan,

Can you rename Tamilnadu as "Tamil Nadu".

Hi Kannan,

Can you rename Tamilnadu as "Tamil Nadu".

Idhu Ennnada Tamizh Nattukku Vantha Sodhanai ? :lol:

Arul Sir Type Adichar. Naan Copy Adichen. :)

Vidunga Boss ! Adhu romba periya procedure.

Okie..some threads starts with Tamilnadu and most other Tamil Nadu.

Nevermind.

Construction of Dams


As per the National Register of Large Dams (NRLD) 2009, there are 5101 number of large dams in India, out of which 4711 are completed and 390 are under construction. The State-wise distribution of these dams is given below.



STATE - WISE DISTRIBUTION OF LARGE DAMS

Sl. No.
State/Union Territory
Completed dams
Dams Under Construction
TOTAL

1
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
2

2

2
Andhra Pradesh
283
51
334

3
Arunachal Pradesh
1

1

4
Assam
2
2
4

5
Bihar
24
4
28

6
Chhattisgarh
243
16
259

7
Goa
5

5

8
Gujarat
598
68
666

9
Himachal Pradesh
13
6
19

10
Jammu & Kashmir
10
3
13

11
Jharkhand
49
28
77

12
Karnataka
229
7
236

13
Kerala
53
1
54

14
Madhya Pradesh
899
7
906

15
Maharashtra
1676
145
1821

16
Manipur
2
3
5

17
Meghalaya
5
2
7

18
Orissa
157

157

19
Punjab
14
1
15

20
Rajasthan
180
23
203

21
Sikkim
2

2

22
Tamil Nadu
107
1
108

23
Tripura
1

1

24
Uttar Pradesh
115
16
131

25
Uttrakhand
13
6
19

26
West Bengal
28

28


GRAND TOTAL
4711
390
5101




During conceptualisation of Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP), 13 States has shown interest for inclusion of some of their dams for rehabilitation. However, the proposal for DRIP envisages rehabilitation of 223 dams (104 dams in Tamil Nadu, 50 dams in Madhya Pradesh, 38 dams in Orissa, 31 dams in Kerala) and for the dam safety institutional strengthening in these States and in Central Water Commission (CWC). The proposal, with an estimated cost of Rs. 2100 Crore, also has an unallocated component of Rs. 480.24 Crore, which can be utilised for rehabilitation of dams in other states.



The DRIP proposal is under consideration of the Government.



The Minister of State in the Ministry Of Water Resources and Minority Affairs Shri Vincent H. Pala gave this information in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.

YSK/RS

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=75848

nalla pathukonga... ippadi thaan nama oor athula ellam thani parka mudiyum..

innum 3months la ella dry ayidum.


that time water was flowing to full extent in Kollidam and Mettur dam all 16 eyes were opened.

It looks to be one week rain that has flooded Tiruppur's Noyyal. This week data is not released, but looking at the past week ending on Nov 2nd Tiruppur received the highest rainfall and excess by 254%

http://www.imdchennai.gov.in/wi_tn_wk.htm

And over all NE monsoon are excess in the state.

http://www.imdchennai.gov.in/wi_tn_snl.htm

some more pics of Noyyal floods - at Tiruppur

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/8112011/slm0811pag1firstmina4.jpg

Flood waters at Kodiveri

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/8112011/CBEFE0811PG02PH2.jpg

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/8112011/cbe0811pg13%20tprph-1.jpg

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/8112011/cbe0811pg13%20tprph-3.jpg

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/8112011/cbe0811pg13%20tprph-5.jpg

Tiruparapu falls-Kumari dt

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/8112011/cbe0811pg14%20sulurph-3.jpg

Noyyal near Kovai

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/8112011/CBE0811FEPG16Po1.jpg

Flood waters in Vaigai at Madurai

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/8112011/FEMDU0811PG01PH2.jpg

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/8112011/NLF7P01.jpg

Looks Cauvery has escaped from flood this time. There might not be much damage to Delta TN...

^^ great pictures.. thanks Arul

Flood waters in Vaigai at Madurai

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/8112011/FEMDU0811PG01PH2.jpg...

The Albert Victor Bridge in picture was built across Vaigai in 1889. Still standing strong.^^

All irrigation and hydraulic engineer experts in TN should now be spending their time to devise schemes to impound such huge supply of water by building huge lakes in dry areas along the path of these rivers/jungle streams..

Do we have any expert team in the field?

Looks Cauvery has escaped from flood this time. There might not be much damage to Delta TN...

Expect a show before December.. I think Noyyal river joins cauveri. Noyyal in floods after 25 years,it seems! Tirupur will be blessed City if there is water flow in this river all the time.!

^^

irrigation and hydraulic engineers were there 600-800years in TN they are vanished now.

Kanmai, temple ponds, huge man made eris were built mainly to store these rain water which can even serve for 2nd year if the monsoon fails the next year.

http://www.tankless.com.au/calculators.html

Interesting data!! (for 1 Sqm)

So, for 1mm of rain - 100 litres of rainwater is collected.
For 10mm of rain - 1000 litres of rainwater is collected.

thalaiyae suthuthu! so much of rain water can be stored on those man made eris, temple ponds, kanmai, kalvai etc.,

^^^^

The Thalayari of the village where our lands were was such an Engineer :) . He never stepped into any school for education.

He will guesstimate the quantum of water just by seeing the inlet, outlet, rising speed and 90% of the times, it would be exact.

He will also smell the air and by watching the movement of clouds, air direction and predict when the rain will come and how long it will be.

I was his favourite pupil as I always used to ask questions on all these.

He only taught me my first geometry (but crude native way) for calculating area by measurement thro eyes (without a tape).

I later learnt that Special Commandoes of Army & Black Cats are also taught these as part of their training.

There was one more man who will predict the yield of crops just by sampling at a few places. (He will pluck an ear of corn or Paddy and separate the grains)

Their Native intelligence was far far superior than our present day tutored intelligence.

This Purananooru song always strikes me and amazes me...

செஞ்ஞா யிற்றுச் செலவும், அஞ்ஞாயிற்றுப்
பரிப்பும், பரிப்புச் சூழ்ந்தமண் டிலமும்,
வளிதிரிதரு திசையும்,
வறிது நிலைஇய காயமும் என்றிவை
சென்றளந்து அறிந்தார் போல என்றும்
இனைத்துஎன் போரும் உளரே; அனைத்தும்
அறிவுஅறி வாகச் செறிவினை யாகிக்
களிறுகவுள் அடுத்த எறிகல் போல
ஒளித்த துப்பினை ஆதலின் வெளிப்பட
யாங்ஙனம் பாடுவர் புலவர்?

My approx translation:

"""My King, In your place you have people who know the red Sun’s Position/Path, its extent, the area the sun’s extent has covered , the direction the changing winds will come from and the climate that is going to prevail, and they could easily calculate and foretell as if they went near and measured. You our great leader who grasped that knowledge and in your actions it results, like the speed of the stone thrown by the often soft tamed elephant, the radiance of your hidden knowledge will come out, How could else the poets can praise you?"""

this shows those times they were in need of these calculations and has experts in calculating astronomical bodies position and weather predictions.

hm....
our ancestors are intelligent and not greedy...
TN is ruined in the last 25 yrs in the name of "global economy boom"..

Never know such proposal was there!

Will 1000crore Hogenakkal-Iyyar river linking via Salem, Namakkal, Trichy, Permbalur/Ariyalur dt get implemented?

Also 250MW power can be produced..

http://tm.dinakaran.com/pdf/2011/12/02/20111202a_004105010.jpg

Dinakaran

Never know such proposal was there!

Will 1000crore Hogenakkal-Iyyar river linking via Salem, Namakkal, Trichy, Permbalur/Ariyalur dt get implemented?

Also 250MW power can be produced..

http://tm.dinakaran.com/pdf/2011/12/02/20111202a_004105010.jpg

Dinakaran

Downstream districts ayacut can not be reduced by this diversion.

Only during floods ie when excess water is available.

பெரியாறு, காவிரி பிரச்னைக்கு தீர்வு தேசிய நீர்வழிச்சாலை திட்டம்

மதுரை : "முல்லைப்பெரியாறு அணை மற்றும் காவிரி நதிநீர் பங்கீடு பிரச்னைகளுக்கு தீர்வுகாண, "தேசிய நீர்வழிச்சாலை
திட்ட'த்தை உடனடியாக அமல்படுத்த வேண்டும்,' என திட்ட தொழில் நுட்பக்குழு தலைவர் (நவாட்டெக்) ஏ.சி.காமராஜ் தெரிவித்தார்.அவரது அறிக்கை:தமிழகத்தில் வடகிழக்கு பருவமழை அதிகம் பெய்தது. கிராமம், நகரங்கள் தண்ணீரில் மிதக்கின்றன. பயிர்கள் நாசம்அடைந்தன. மழை நீர் முழுவதும் வீணாக கடலில் கலக்கிறது. இது தமிழக மக்களின் 2 ஆண்டு தண்ணீர் தேவையை பூர்த்தி செய்வதற்கு ஈடாகும்.வெள்ளச் சேத மதிப்பீடு, நிவாரண பணியில் அரசு ஈடுபட்டுள்ளது. இந்த அவலம் மாற, மக்கள் நிம்மதியாக வாழ ஒரே வழி, தமிழக அரசிடம் சமர்ப்பிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள "தமிழ்நாடு நவீன நீர்வழிச்சாலை திட்ட'த்தை செயல்படுத்துவது தான்.இதனால் தமிழகத்தின் பெரிய, சிறிய நதிகளை இணைத்து, மக்களின் தண்ணீர் தேவையை பூர்த்தி செய்ய முடியும். ஆண்டுதோறும் ஏற்படும் வெள்ளச்சேதங்களை தடுக்கலாம். அரசுக்கு நிதிச்சுமை ஏற்படாது. பொருளாதாரம் உயரும். ஆண்டுக்கு 3000 மெகாவாட் மின்சாரம் உற்பத்தி செய்யலாம். முல்லைப்பெரியாறு அணை மற்றும் காவிரி நதிநீர் பங்கீடு பிரச்னைகளுக்கு முடிவுகட்ட "தேசிய நீர்வழிச்சாலை திட்ட'த்தையும் உடனடியாக அமல்படுத்த வேண்டும், என குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளார்.


http://www.dinamalar.com/district_detail.asp?id=363259

http://oddanchatram.in/pwd61701.html

check dam across kodanganar river

dindigul dist dams


Varadhamanadhi dam has started overflowing. Even as its total height of the dam was 66.47 feet, the level crossed 66.89 feet. An inflow of 214 cusecs was being discharged in to the river.

The entire inflow of 375 cusecs from Palar dam, 150 cusecs from Parappalar dam, 76 cusecs from Kudiraiyar dam, 120 cusecs from Kodaganar dam and 53 cusecs from Marudhanadhi dam was being discharged. Manjalar dam was receiving an inflow of 42 cusecs and the discharge was 30 cusecs. Inflow in to Nangajiar dam was 34 cusecs and the discharge two cusecs.

The water level stood at 63.22 feet (total depth 66 feet) in Palar-Porundhalar dam, 88 feet (90 feet) in Parappalar dam, 75.99 feet (79.99 feet) in Kudiraiyar dam, 21.09 feet (27.07 feet) in Kodaganar dam, 30.86 feet (39.37 feet) in Nanganjiar dam, 62.08 feet (64 feet) in Marudhanadhi dam and 56.40 (57 feet) in Manjalar dam.

that earlier tender may be due to this. this yr budget it was approved as well

The World Bank-funded Rs.745-crore Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP), covering 104 dams in the State, will be launched in the next financial year (2011-2012).

Of the total number of dams, 66 belong to the Water Resources Department (WRD) of the Public Works Department (PWD) and 38 to the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO), successor-entity of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.

In the first year, 18 dams — WRD's 12 and TANGEDCO's six — will be taken up. They include Manimuthar, Nambiyar, Poygaiyar, Vadaku Pachaiyar, Kodaganar, Veedur, Gomukhi, Mordhana, Advinainainar, Kadamparai, Mukkurthi, Servalar, Avalanche and Glenmorgan, according to the two departments' officials. Of the project cost of Rs.745.49 crore, 80 per cent will be contributed by the World Bank and the rest by the State government.

On Saturday, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi issued an order for the formation of an 11-member empowered committee, headed by the Chief Secretary, to ensure expeditious implementation of the DRIP. The committee will include Secretaries of the Departments of Agriculture, Public Works and Energy, TANGEDCO Chairman-cum-Managing Director and Engineer-in-Chief of the Water Resources Organisation.

The six-year project will also be implemented in three other States — Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa. While the Department of Economic Affairs in the Union Finance Ministry will be the borrower of funds, the Central Water Commission under the Union Water Resources Ministry and the governments of four participating States will be the implementing agencies of the project. The World Bank is likely to sign an agreement with all shortly in New Delhi.

According to the project appraisal document hosted on the Bank's website, a total of 223 dams will be covered under the project. Many are over 25 years old.

Tamil Nadu accounts for the maximum number of dams (104). Madhya Pradesh comes next with 50 dams, followed by Orissa, 38, and Kerala, 31. In Tamil Nadu and Kerala, dams under the control of the State power utilities are also covered.

The total cost of the project in the four States is around Rs.2,100 crore, of which about one-third is earmarked for Tamil Nadu.

The project will aim at assuring the full reservoir capacity of project dams, achieving effective utilisation of the stored water, and managing and monitoring the long-term performance of the dams.

The installation of automatic water-level recorders is among the features of the project, the officials say.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article901954.ece

Thanks for sharing, Kumar.

I owe that keralities have made us realise the importance of investing in the irrigation and agriculture ..which will give launch pad in terms of the hydel projects.as well as increase the agricultural productivity.we need to search for alternatives..which stopped us building our own hydel projects in upper kundha...there will be a definite alternative...we need propel plan like avinashi adthikadavu...

before doing all this things we need to make the agricultural attractive such that people could earn money...
we need to go for more micro hydel projects like that of Gujarat.

Btw i see whenever congress rules the neignbouring staes we startgetting problems..is it have any links to conspiracy of that sort..

Btw i see whenever congress rules the neignbouring staes we startgetting problems..is it have any links to conspiracy of that sort..


Congress being a national party does not discrimate in terms of color, creed or culture. Skewed Perception of regionalism manifest as problems and hinder the growth and development of Hindustan. Congress will reign over sober souls who want a united I(H)ndia.

H stands for HINDI..no offence intended.
I stands for Congress I

Congress being a national party does not discrimate in terms of color, creed or culture. Skewed Perception of regionalism manifest as problems and hinder the growth and development of Hindustan. Congress will reign over sober souls who want a united I(H)ndia.

H stands for HINDI..no offence intended.
I stands for Congress I

Good joke. How much ever you promote, congress will never grow in TN (or in SSC-TN).. no offence intended.

Congress being a national party does not discrimate in terms of color, creed or culture. Skewed Perception of regionalism manifest as problems and hinder the growth and development of Hindustan. Congress will reign over sober souls who want a united I(H)ndia.

H stands for HINDI..no offence intended.
I stands for Congress I

:rofl:

:rofl:

It is not perception..its true fact..Kerala-TN.
Telegana..
Manipur-Assam

lots of example..they just enjoy these things sinve the focus on their all
loots and scams will go in this dust..
kullampiya kottiyel meen pitikaranga..congress aluka..

It is not perception..its true fact..Kerala-TN.
Telegana..
Manipur-Assam

lots of example..they just enjoy these things sinve the focus on their all
loots and scams will go in this dust..
kullampiya kottiyel meen pitikaranga..congress aluka..

Che, che ippadi pachai pachaiya pesa koodathu. Aduvm oruthali patchama pesa koodathu. Ella arasial katchikalum appadithan.

Hi All,

I would like to record information on the traditional waterbodies in TN. I think it is high time to focus on these as we are facing water scarcity and huge costs associated with new irrigatio and drinking water supply projects and not to forget inter-state water sharing issues.

Requesting opinion of the members.
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Siva

I start with the tanks in Coimbatore which are fed by river Noyyal.

S.No - Name - Area (in acres) - Capacity (in M. Cu. ft)
1 Krishnampathy 175.93 7.658
2 Narasampathy 124.05 59.711
3 Selvampathy 69.92 9.916
4 Kumarasamy 93.90 19.868
5 Selva Chintamani 36.82 2.929
6 Kurichi kulam 343.96 59.918
7 Periyakulam 320.00 69.501

Apart from these, Singanallur kulam and Valankulam are there in the city.

Nice thread, and a timely one.

Here are few things to start with.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=86681063&postcount=39
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=86681164&postcount=40

I start with the tanks in Coimbatore which are fed by river Noyyal.

S.No - Name - Area (in acres) - Capacity (in M. Cu. ft)
1 Krishnampathy 175.93 7.658
2 Narasampathy 124.05 59.711
3 Selvampathy 69.92 9.916
4 Kumarasamy 93.90 19.868
5 Selva Chintamani 36.82 2.929
6 Kurichi kulam 343.96 59.918
7 Periyakulam 320.00 69.501

Apart from these, Singanallur kulam and Valankulam are there in the city.

Add

Sulur lake - Report here (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article846990.ece) and here (http://wildlifemusings.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/birding-at-sulur-lake/)

It would be nice if Dams are included in this thread.

^^

There is already a thread for rivers, dams, irrigation. Even lakes can be merged with that thread.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1437161

^^

There is already a thread for rivers, dams, irrigation. Even lakes can be merged with that thread.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1437161

Yes. That's also a good idea...

சோழவரம், போரூர், அயனம்பாக்கம், நேமம், செம்பரம்பாக்கம் ஏரிகளை சீரமைக்க ஜெ. ரூ.130 கோடி நிதி

News in Thatstamil.com: http://tamil.oneindia.in/news/2011/12/20/tamilnadu-jaya-allots-rs-130-crore-renovate-lakes-aid0128.html

Shall we rename the thread to indicate that it includes Lakes as well?

hi,
What is the current status of Tamiraparani-Karumeniyar-Nambiar interlinking schemes.

Is there any development as the govement is changed?

Shall we rename the thread to indicate that it includes Lakes as well?
It should be renamed as "Inland Water bodies"

It should be renamed as "Inland Water bodies"
yes, that's more apt, I think.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/2181/54527897.jpg

Plans to stop Vaigai water mixing with sea at Rs. 165 Crores

SC revives NDA dream to interlink rivers

http://www.livemint.com/2012/02/27235012/SC-revivesNDA-dream-to-interl.html?atype=tp

Reviving a utopian scheme last proposed by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in 2002 (it was first mooted in independent India in the 1970s), the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday cleared the way for the interlinking of India’s major rivers to combat water scarcity in some parts by putting in place an all-powerful committee to gradually implement the mammoth project.

The court passed the order in a 10-year-long case examining the possibilities of river linking and also the questions of states being able to resist such a programme.

“It is easy to join rivers on paper. It has to be examined—what is its environmental impact, how many people get displaced, what is the condition of farmers, etc.,” said Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary, and added that its environmental viability ought to be assessed by “today’s standards”.

A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia said the Centre and the state governments concerned ought to implement the project under a high-powered committee comprising the Union minister for water resources, its secretary, the secretary of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) and four expert members appointed by the water resources ministry, the finance ministry, the Planning Commission and MoEF. Representatives from state governments, two social activists and senior advocate Ranjit Kumar, who has been assisting the court in the case, will also be members of the committee.

“It is directed that the committee shall take firm steps and fix a definite time frame to lay down the guidelines for completion of feasibility reports or other reports, and shall ensure the completion of projects so that the benefits accrue within reasonable time and cost,” SC said.

The court had taken up the case on the basis of an 18 July 1994 Hindustan Times article. Later, based on several discussions over the need for improved and better access to water, amicus curiae (friend of the court) Kumar filed an application to examine the possibility of river interlinking.

In 2002, Kumar made an application to the court in the Yamuna case based on the speech of then president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on how India could possibly better manage its water resources.

The court converted Kumar’s application into a full-scale petition and heard it out separately.

The river interlinking project was popular with the NDA government, and in October 2002, then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, following a Supreme Court recommendation, formed a task force to look at the modalities of river linking—the country had suffered an acute drought that year.

The task force concluded that the linking of rivers in the country would raise India’s irrigation potential to 160 million hectares (ha) for all types of crops by 2050, compared with a maximum of about 140 million ha that could be generated through conventional sources of irrigation, as well as generate 34 gigawatts of power, nearly one-sixth of the current installed power capacity.

Conceptually, the project is the largest of its kind anywhere in the world and will handle four times more water than the Three Gorges Dam in China, five times all inter-basin water transfers completed in the US, and more than six times the total transfer of the six inter-basin water transfer projects already operational in India, namely Sarda-Sahayak, Beas-Sutlej, the Madhopur-Beas link, the Kurnool-Cudappa canal, the Periyar Vegai link and the Telugu Ganga link.

The scheme essentially aims to channel the relatively munificent water of the river basins in east India to the drier west and peninsular parts of the country. Thus, waters from the Ganga and the Brahmaputra rivers will be siphoned to the Mahanadi basin and from there relayed to the Godavari, Krishna, Pennar and Cauvery basins.

However, several interstate disputes, such as over the sharing of the Cauvery waters between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, will have to be resolved ahead of implementing the project. The project also necessitates water-sharing arrangements with Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh—all hurdles that have cumulatively rendered the Rs.5 trillion project a non-starter.

Ashok Jaitley, who heads the water resources division at the Energy and Resources Institute, an environmental research body, said there were challenges such as land acquisition, and the environmental impact of large dams that may make such an exercise unviable.

“There are serious questions of livelihoods, land and environmental concerns that are associated with such projects,” he said. “Think of the enormous displacement that the Three Gorges Dam project in China effected.”

Prakash Javadekar of the Bharatiya Janata Party saw the move as a positive. “This is a vindication of the NDA government’s vision and the only reason for its failure was mismanagement by the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government.”

In a separate order on the 1994 Yamuna pollution case, the Supreme Court asked the governments of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh about the steps they had taken to prevent pollution of the Himalayan river.

The court has placed the case for final hearings in April.

Atleast CG support financially on river linking projects which will not opposed by other states..
E.g it should help TN govt on its current river linking project..(what happened to that status? put on hold?)
We are saying minerals are wealth of the country and does not belong to any state.
If so why river water should not be nationalised?
there are few international problems to be solved. not sure UPA is capable of taking that.
Inter state water dispute needs to be solved..."no way"..

On 2112: then PM of India, assured that soon river linking in projects will be examined.

It involves lot of regional and central politics, I don't think we have a powerful CG to handle this kind of a massive project. This project is 4 times the size of 3 gorges dam, It will end up as a money making program for 1000 political parties (swindling money in the name of the project) and 100000 NGO's (minting money blocking the project) . People like us will carry the cost for generations for an unfinished project.

^^ interlinking rivers is very polarising topic.

We do not even have experience in dealing with small river basins.. say even size of cooum, how in the world we can take on national level mega rivers with quite diverse patterns of hydrology.

The best approach, atleast for TN, will be to have a proper scientific approach of land-water resource utilisation with due respect to water bodies, wetlands, marshes. Increasing tanks number and its storage capacity, proper focus on replenishing ground water, increasing vegetation cover (with local flora), increasing efficiency of water usage etc can go a long way.

These steps cost only one small price - a firm political resolve and increased mass awareness. This approach will also be a model that can be emulated within diferent states who choose to follow. Of course, focus on population and population density will go a long way.

The example of Tarun Bharat Sangh in Rajastan to have a perennial stream in Aravalli part of desert shows that simple technologies that are time tested are worthy of emulation. Since locals were involved, they are stake holders and respect the resource more.

Thankfully, rainfall in TN is way above Rajastan and we can definitely apply these technologies.

On a serious note....I'm not totally against river linking project, we can come up with a blue print for a long term national strategic 30-40 yr program, and then break it down into smaller 2 yr projects based on opportunity costs (maximum ROI) and then implement in parallel across the country. Before that we need to consider water as a natural resource which is available only in limited quantity and start paying a price/royalty based on usage/transfer(tollgate for water usage :cheers:) which in a way be a incentive for upper riparian states to soften their stand on linking of rivers.

For all practical purpose, one has to do
Step 1 - within the state
Step 2 - within a region
Step 3 - within the contiguous landscape
Step 4 - connecting all regions

Heavy resistance from Ganetic Plains states to this and no political party will have the will to act.

Only BJP / NDA talked about this. But implementation ..??? Let us wait and see.

^^

The above post is reference for river linking?

River linking will be a "kanal neer" for ever in national level.. thought bjp was interested in this major project, I wonder why they didn't even move a single stone during their rule!!

Though few states are moving with river linking projects in state level, it will not be sucessful for the states like TN, GJ when there is no source for perennial river!!

hey, what moved no stone?

orissa flood and drought next year meant vajpayee mooted this plan in 2002. the authority was asked to develop plans and studies. two proposals were mooted. one was from two prof in madurai kamraj univ. even kalam supported that plan.

some madurai people can contacts the profs and put it on net

This was done in the yrs between feb 2002 to oct 2003. elections were called. they lost power/

gujarat did the linking. MP has signed some contracts with up for river som and others

MP is pushing for it, and they will start work soon.

national water grid authority was mooted for this

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The above post is reference for river linking?

River linking will be a "kanal neer" for ever in national level.. thought bjp was interested in this major project, I wonder why they didn't even move a single stone during their rule!!

Though few states are moving with river linking projects in state level, it will not be sucessful for the states like TN, GJ when there is no source for perennial river!!

CG has to give 90% of share to SG whoever interested in linking of Intra-River within their domain ( as per CG Proposed river linking feasibilty report). Then it's upto SG to give some progress in thier own state with 90% fund from CG and done it.

At the final moment, let CG link the inter- state rivers with the help of both SG (if accepted by both) or use CG power with the help of SC ...

Xposting from India River linking project

Interlink Rivers: SC asks centre to form panel to tackle drought, flood

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has asked the government to implement the ambitious interlinking of the rivers project in a time-bound manner to tackle drought and flood in various parts of the country. The court also appointed a high-powered committee for planning and implementation of the project.

A bench comprising Chief Justice SH Kapadia, Justice AK Patnaik and Justice Swatanter Kumar on Monday said the Centre and concerned state governments should participate for the effective implementation of the project "in a time bound manner".

"We direct the Union of India to forthwith constitute a committee for interlinking of rivers", the bench said in its judgement. "The committee shall plan for implementation of the project," the bench said, adding the delay has already resulted in an increase in the cost of the project.

It appointed a high-powered committee, comprising representatives of various government departments, ministries, experts and social activists to chart out and execute the project.

The committee will comprise the water resources minister, secretary, environment secretary and four expert members appointed by the water resources ministry, finance ministry, Planning Commission and environment ministry.

Representatives from state governments, two social activists and senior advocate Ranjit Kumar, who has been assisting the court in the case, will also be members of the committee. The river interlinking project was the brainchild of the NDA government and in October 2002, the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had formed a task force to get the project going against the backdrop of the acute drought that year.

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A Centre-appointed task force had in a report recommended division of the project into Peninsular and Himalayan components. The Peninsular component, involving the rivers in southern India, envisaged developing a 'Southern Water Grid' with 16 linkages.

This component included diversion of the surplus waters of the Mahanadi and Godavari to the Pennar, Krishna, Vaigai and Cauvery. The task force had also mooted the diversion of west-flowing rivers of Kerala and Karnataka to the east, the interlinking of small rivers that flow along the west coast, south of Tapi and north of Mumbai and interlinking of the southern tributaries of Yamuna.



The Himalayan component envisaged building storage reservoirs on the Ganga and the Brahmaputra and their main tributaries both in India and Nepal to conserve water during monsoon for irrigation and generation of hydropower, besides checking floods.

The task force had identified 14 links including Kosi-Ghagra, Kosi-Mech, Ghagra-Yamuna, Gandak-Ganga, Yamuna-Rajasthan, Rajasthan-Sabarmati, Sarda-Yamuna, Farakka- Sunderbans, Brahmaputra-Ganga, Subernarekha-Mahanadi, and Ganga-Damodar-Subernarekha.

The task force had also concluded that linking of rivers in the country would raise irrigation potential to 160 million hectares for all types of crops by 2050, compared to a maximum of about 140 million hectares that could be generated through conventional sources of irrigation.

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The fate of the ambitiousRs5,00,000 crore project proposing linkages between major rivers by the year 2016 remained a virtual non-starter and the detailed project report was put in the cold storage

Source:
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Work on first phase of river interlinking project likely to be over by year-end

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In three years of execution, Rs.160 crore out of sanctioned Rs.213 crore spent

Work on the first phase of the Tamiraparani-Karumeniyar-Nambiyar river interlinking project is likely to be completed by the year-end.

Nearly three-fourth of the work, covering two stages of the project, has been carried out.

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In three years of execution, Rs.160 crore out of the sanctioned Rs.213 crore was spent, said sources.

Estimated to cost Rs.369 crore, the project envisages utilisation of 2.765 tmcft (TMC), accounting for about 20 per cent of the surplus quantum of about 13.76 TMC, available on an average annually, in the Tamiraparani. The surplus quantum was assessed after studying 70 years' data on the amount of water released from the Srivaikuntam anicut, the last across the river, an official said.

Meant to benefit Tiruneveli and Tuticorin districts, the project was mooted to divert the dependable portion of surplus from the Kannadian anicut channel to dry areas, including Sathankulam and Thisaiyanvilai, besides stabilising irrigation in certain ayacuts of the Manimuthar channel that face water shortage.

The diversion will be done by increasing the carrying capacity of the Kannadian channel and laying a new canal for 73 km. The 6.5-km-long Kannadian channel's carrying capacity will be increased from 450 cubic feet per second (cusecs) to 3,680 cusecs.

A canal will be formed for 73 km, terminating at M.L. Theri, which is a sand dune. The new canal can carry 3,200 cusecs of water.

In the first phase, the component of the new canal will cover 39 km of the total length of 73 km.

This extends over taluks such as Ambasamudram and Nanguneri.

NEXT PHASE

The next phase – third and fourth stages – will cover the remaining 34 km of the proposed canal. As work to widen the Kannadian channel can be taken up only from March to May in view of the water flow, It will resume in a few weeks.

Though the State government is funding the project out of its resources, its Water Resources Department is trying to obtain Central assistance under the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme. Once the nod is given, 90 per cent of the project cost will be borne by the Centre.

The official said the Central Water Commission had cleared the project. Efforts were on to get environmental clearance.

thehindu.com

Projects in Tamil Nadu

A proposal of water resources consolidation project of Tamil Nadu was received in 1996-97 for AIBP funding. During 1996-97, Water Resources Consolidation Project (WRCP) of Tamil Nadu was brought under Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP) and Central Loan Assistance (CLA) of Rs. 20.00 crore was released to the project. However, the State Government has discontinued the project under AIBP. No further proposals have been received from State Govt. of Tamil Nadu for inclusion under AIBP for Major/ Medium irrigation Projects.

Also, Government of India has approved two schemes on Repair, Renovation and Restoration (RRR) of water bodies (i) one with external assistance with an outlay of Rs. 1500 crore and (ii) the other with domestic support with an outlay of Rs. 1250 crore for implementation during the XI plan period but no funds have been released to the State Government of Tamil Nadu under the scheme of RRR of the water bodies with domestic support. However, under the scheme of RRR of water bodies with external assistance World Bank Loan Agreement has been signed with Tamil Nadu for Rs.2182 crore to restore 5763 water bodies having a CCA of 4 lakh hectares. As per the latest information received work has been completed in 2407 water bodies.

Two numbers of major/medium irrigation project proposals as follows have been received from State Government of Tamil Nadu for appraisal in Central Water Commission (CWC):

(i) Excavation of Link Canal to interconnect Ponnaiyar River with Palar River through Cheyyar River and augmenting supply to Nandan canal in Thiruvannamalai District of Tamil Nadu.

The Detailed Project Report of the project was received in Central Water Commission in February 2009. There were number of correspondences between CWC and Project Authorities/ State Government. The observations in respect of relevant aspects of the project were sent to the Project Authorities/ State Government during February 2009 to May 2009 and latest observations in December 2011. Further, the statutory Environment and Forest clearances of Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) are awaited for the project proposal from Project Authorities. Project Authorities have informed in January 2012 that necessary actions are being taken for compliances of observations of Central Water Commission.

(ii) Formation of flood carrier canal from Kannadian Channel to drought prone area of Sathankulam, Thisaiyanvilal, by interlinking Tamiraparani, Karumeniyar and Nambiyar rivers in Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi Districts of Tamil Nadu.

The revised cost estimate (at 2011-12 Price Level) of the project was submitted to CWC in November 2011. The observations of CWC on various aspects of the project have been sent to the State Government during November 2011 to February 2012. Further, the statutory Environment clearance of Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) is awaited for the project proposal from Project Authorities.

Apart from above, no revised estimate of any irrigation project has been received from Govt. of Tamil Nadu for appraisal in CWC. This information was given by the Minister of State for Water Resources & Minority Affairs Shri Vincent H. Pala in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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^^ Great!! :cheers: At the same time, the way the report has come (especially this part -> "The CG remained quiet on the funds, hence the SG has decided to execute the scheme in phased manner"), makes me think Amma aiming to become a part in CG in next polls!! :lol:

Centre assures Kerala on Pamba-Achenkoil-Vaipar link project

New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) With Kerala demanding scrapping of the centrally-sponsored project to link its Pamba and Achencoil rivers with Vaipar river in Tamil Nadu, the Centre today assured it that the project would be implemented on with the state's consent. Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal gave this assurance to the state at the annual general meeting of National Water Development Agency (NDWA) here, Kerala Water Resources Minister P J Joseph said. Kerala has been opposing the project since it was prepared in 1995 by the NWDA citing that diversion of water from Pamba and Achencoil to Vaipar would dry up the ecologically sensitive wetland system part of Vembanad lake. Representing Kerala in the meeting, Joseph pointed out that the Supreme Court in its judgement on February this year has "recorded the serious objections" raised by Kerala against the inter basin water transfer under the Pamba- Achenkoil- Vaipar Link Project (PAVLP). In its order directing the Union Government to form a "special committee" for the implementation of the interlinking of rivers, " the Supreme Court has also said that the projects can be implemented only with the concurrence of the state concerned," the Minister said. In the meeting today, Kerala also asked the Centre to "permenantly delete" the Pamba-Achencoil-Vaipar Link Project from the Peninsular Development Component of Interlinking Proposal. According to the project, dams will be constructed across the Kerala rivers to pumb the water to Alagar, the tributary of Vaipar in Tamil Nadu to provide water for irrigation in 91,400 hectares in Tuticorin, Virudunagar and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu.

A discussion on water bodies linking is going to be showcased today 7.30 p.m IST in PuthiyaThalaimurai news channel today. The trailer looked good. Somebody please see it and post the gist here.

A discussion on water bodies linking is going to be showcased today 7.30 p.m IST in PuthiyaThalaimurai news channel today. The trailer looked good. Somebody please see it and post the gist here.

I saw the same but it was very brief one.

Badri Seshadri was the moderator and he was of the opinion that though the idea is good, only the water starved states like TN are for the same and many against esp Kerala, Karnataka.

He also said that we can only dream (Like A Kalam) but it is very impractical to implement.

Instead he proposed improving the water resources, RWH, new lakes, old lakes and water ways restoration. He opined that all these are well within TN Govt control and we need not beg anybody outside.

He also said that TN will get any amount as low interest loan from WB/ADB since the track record is good.

BJP Rep (a lady) said Vajpayee sincerely believed this was possible and Surwsh Kumar was made a minister for this. She also talked about Gujarat and how Modi has done that within Gujarat.

DMK Rep was saying that his Govt started the restoration work but it has lost steam. He also said that when British proposed Railways across India, all were pessimistic and see the result now. He also cited Golden Quadrilateral and its success.

There was also an independent so called expert, but he was talking regular Blah Blah.

Self-sufficiency is the way to go! Just look at Israel. A much drier place than TN and yet terrific water management.

With growing wealth and technology, I hope TN administrators would go the Israel way..

I remember Jaya meeting with an Israeli govt official recently. Anything fruitful? Kannan Sir??

I saw the same but it was very brief one.

Badri Seshadri was the moderator and he was of the opinion that though the idea is good, only the water starved states like TN are for the same and many against esp Kerala, Karnataka.

He also said that we can only dream (Like A Kalam) but it is very impractical to implement.

Instead he proposed improving the water resources, RWH, new lakes, old lakes and water ways restoration. He opined that all these are well within TN Govt control and we need not beg anybody outside.

He also said that TN will get any amount as low interest loan from WB/ADB since the track record is good.

BJP Rep (a lady) said Vajpayee sincerely believed this was possible and Surwsh Kumar was made a minister for this. She also talked about Gujarat and how Modi has done that within Gujarat.

DMK Rep was saying that his Govt started the restoration work but it has lost steam. He also said that when British proposed Railways across India, all were pessimistic and see the result now. He also cited Golden Quadrilateral and its success.

There was also an independent so called expert, but he was talking regular Blah Blah.

:cheers:Thanks for the gist Kannan sir. Everybody has made some vilambaram for themselves also it seems from speaking about projects alone. :lol: Adhulayum SSC mathiri off topic discussions laam nadakuthu.

Very ambitious thing for us which is not or less feasible without co operation from neighboring states. Did they speak anything about the Cauvery - Gundaar like TN rivers linking alone apart from deepening lakes, etc?

Bhavani sagar aerial view

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more here..

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Mission Impossible
Experts agree that the economic and environmental costs of interlinking India's rivers far outweigh its projected benefits. (http://www.frontline.in/stories/20120420290700400.htm)

Fragile ecosystems
Kerala's rivers are part of unique, sensitive ecosystems, which would be disturbed by the river-linking project.

Kerala is a shoestring-like piece of land tucked away between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea. It has four distinct physiographic zones, the highlands, the midlands, the lowland plain, and the extremely narrow coastal plain.

South of Kochi, central Kerala is an enchanting landscape, a region of five “rivers” originating in the Western Ghats and flowing rapidly through the undulating plains to drain into the “Vembanad wetland system”. The Vembanad deltaic region includes one of the longest lakes in India, the lower reaches of the five rivers, and a complex system of backwaters, marshes, lagoons, mangrove forests, reclaimed land, paddy fields, coconut palms and a network of canals.

A sizable portion of this coastal wetland zone lies at or below sea level. It is a thickly populated region, a major part of which – Kuttanad, with 54 villages spread over three districts – is known as “the rice bowl of Kerala” and is famous for its distinctive patterns of cultivation, sometimes carried out up to two metres below sea level, with the fields being prone to floods as well as salt water intrusion from the sea.

The region is also famous for the unique formation of mud banks, known as “chakara”, during the monsoon, when the mud and silt washed down by the rivers help form nutrient-rich havens on the coast for fish and prawns that come seeking sanctuary from the rough sea, and offering a rich harvest to fisherfolk. The Vembanad backwaters is today among the most sought-after tourism destinations in India. “Visitors are often bowled over by the breathtaking beauty of the place and wonder at the abundance of water in and around it. Therein is a problem. They all see a river, or a lake or the backwaters, merely as ‘water' and go home with an idea of abundance. But they fail to see them as unique ecosystems, sensitive and fragile and in need of extreme care,” Professor K.G. Padmakumar, Associate Director of the Kerala Agriculture University's Regional Agriculture Research Station at Kumarakom, told Frontline.

He was responding to questions on how the proposed trans-basin diversion to Tamil Nadu of the waters of the Pamba and the Achankovil, two of the five rivers that drain into the southern Vembanad wetland system, would affect Kerala, a State widely believed to have 41 rivers and hence a surplus of water.

Continuous freshwater flow from the five rivers (a sixth one, one of the tributaries of the Periyar also joins the Vembanad backwater system in its lower reaches) is crucial for the Vembanad region, which was declared a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention in November 2002. The area, however, has been under increasing ecological stress over the years, a target of intense human interventions, especially for agriculture and tourism.

The result has been extreme fertilizer pollution from agricultural fields, and pollution caused by organic, inorganic and toxic materials locally generated or brought in by the rivers, aggressive spread of invasive plant species such as water hyacinth, choked waterways and poor drainage, loss of fish and migratory water fowl species and population, increasing intensity of flooding, shortage of potable water, and proliferation of water-borne parasites and predators affecting human health.

“The proposal for diversion of the Pamba and the Achankovil is viewed with a lot of concern here. The Vembanad lake has today become a dumping yard, and the natural flushing mechanisms have long been hindered or proved inadequate. There is concern that such a project is even being considered without taking into account the visibly decreasing river flow during most parts of the year,” said Dr S. Leena Kumari, Professor and head of the Rice Research Station, Moncombu, in Alappuzha district.

“An inter-State transfer of the waters of the Pamba and Achankovil will be suicidal to the interests of Kuttanad, which is already facing an ecological disaster. The fact is Kerala has no surplus water to transfer even from one basin to another within the State. The Kuttanad package recently announced by the Union government itself is meant to find solutions to the ecological crisis in Kuttanad. One of its major concerns is how to find more water to maintain the ecological balance in Kuttanad,” said Chief Secretary K. Jayakumar, who has for long been in charge of inter-State water issues.

The refrain, initially raised by the scientific community, is now a common one in the State, ever since Tamil Nadu began to insist on speedy implementation of the Pamba-Achankovil-Vaippar (PAV) project proposal, one among the eight river-linking projects on the “priority list” for which the National Water Development Agency (NWDA) had prepared feasibility reports in 1995.

According to Prof. Padmakumar, it is important to understand that the rivers of Kerala cannot be termed “rivers” in the real sense, as they are diminutive rivers, compared with those in many other parts of India that are 1,000 km or longer. They are also not perennial rivers, being monsoon-fed, and many of them go mostly dry during the summer months. Moreover, Kerala's unique topography means that all the rain that falls in the highlands flows to the sea in a matter of hours.

“But though the State has only a small share of the country's geographic area, it is a biodiversity hot spot. Nearly 22 per cent of the plant diversity of India is in Kerala, and 35 per cent of freshwater fish diversity of the country is found in the rivers of the State. It is surprising how everyone wishes away scientific facts when they moot such diversion schemes. We treat the river merely as a body of water, but it is a unique ecosystem. The Vembanad lake, located below sea level, plays an important role in determining the water table of the midlands and the highlands. Do we not have an obligation to protect such sensitive ecosystems in the national interest? Kerala already has 35 reservoirs; can we afford to disturb the Western Ghats further and build more of them there?” he asked.

The proposed project is meant to transfer 20 per cent of what has been found by the NWDA as “surplus” water of the two rivers to the Vaippar river basin in Tamil Nadu through a nine-kilometre tunnel across the Western Ghats. It involves the construction of three concrete dams, across the Pamba-Kallar at Punnamedu (150 m high and with a storage capacity of 208 million cubic metres, or Mm3), Achankovil-Kallar (160 m high; storage capacity 501.7 Mm3) and Achankovil river (35 m high; storage capacity 33.86 Mm3), a powerhouse for peak power demand at Achankovil-Kallar (installed capacity of 500 MW) and six other powerhouses in the link component (with a total installed capacity of 8.37 MW). The Punnamedu and Achankovil-Kallar dams are to be connected by an eight-kilometre long tunnel. Thus, 634 Mm {+3} of water is to be diverted eventually from the Achankovil-Kallar reservoir through the Ghat tunnel and a 50-km-long main canal that joins the Alagar Odai, a tributary of the Vaippar river in Tamil Nadu. The diverted water is to be used for irrigation in the districts of Madurai, Virudhunagar, Tuticorin and Tirunelveli.

Kerala had been opposing the proposal ever since it was mooted. Among its essential arguments, as explained in a counter-affidavit filed before the court in July 2009, were that: (a) the proposal was based on the erroneous estimation that surplus water is available in the two rivers; (b) Tamil Nadu has no right to demand transfer of waters because the Pamba and Achankovil rivers are fully intra-State rivers, with their entire basins wholly within Kerala; (c) even Parliament has no competency to legislate (by reference to entry 56 of List 1) for transferring water from Kerala to Tamil Nadu; (d) the Kerala Assembly passed a resolution in August 2003, which was binding on the State of Kerala, opposing the transfer of water of the Pamba and the Achankovil to Tamil Nadu; (e) the State Assembly had all legal rights under the Constitution to make laws vesting the waters of intra-State rivers for the benefit of its inhabitants; (f) the waters of the Pamba and the Achankovil are entirely needed for uses in the Vembanad Kol wetland; (g) the proposed transfer of the waters to Tamil Nadu would prejudicially affect the rights and interests of the people of Kerala in the downstream region, and particularly the hydrology of the Vembanad Kol wetland, which is a Ramsar Convention site; and (h) in protecting these wetlands the precautionary principle should apply and that the environmental interest of the Vembanad wetlands system takes precedence over the “alleged economic interest of Tamil Nadu”.

‘No surplus water'
According to former State Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran, Kerala had informed the NWDA that its conclusions about the surplus availability of water in the Pamba and Achankovil rivers was “wrongly based on the annual water availability and that the temporal variations of the river flow were not at all considered by it while forming such conclusions”.

“The only remedy open before Kerala to overcome the problem of lean season flows is to go in for storage reservoirs. But reservoirs can only be built in the highlands, again a region rich in biodiversity. In the past, Kerala had shared not only water (as part of the Mullaperiyar and Parambikkulam-Aliyar projects) but also such feasible reservoir sites with our neighbouring State and found itself without new storage options when the need arose subsequently within those basins in Kerala. We learned hard lessons from those experiences,” he told Frontline, quoting the example of a similar situation caused by the Parambikkulam-Aliyar Project (PAP) in the Chalakudy basin. “Kerala had generously granted water and reservoir locations under the PAP to its neighbour and now is left with only 6.5 tmc ft storage in that basin, while Tamil Nadu has 24.5 tmc ft of storage within Kerala,” he said.

Moreover, the agreement on the PAP was based on a similar study conducted earlier by the Central Water and Power Commission (CW&PC), which said that there would be surplus water to share with Tamil Nadu in those rivers. “Kerala offered water and space to Tamil Nadu for building reservoirs in its territory, but now faces acute water shortage during the summer months and the situation becomes even worse during lean years. In the case of the proposed PAV project, too, the only possible reservoir sites remaining in the Pamba and Achankovil basins are those proposed for the diversion project to Tamil Nadu. Hence it causes concern in the minds of the people of Kerala,” the former Minister said.

Dr A.B. Anitha, Head of the Surface Water Division of the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode, told Frontline that the investigations by the CWRDM in the late 1990s had shown that the basins of four of the five rivers, namely, the Muvattupuzha, the Meenachil, the Manimala and the Achankovil draining into the Vembanad backwater, would have a fresh water deficit for meeting the demands within their boundaries by A.D. 2051. The Pamba has a freshwater flow of 1,208 Mm3, after meeting the projected demands within the basin. However, 4,745 Mm3 of water is required to flush out the present level of pollutants from the Vembanad wetland. Therefore, the Pamba will also have a deficit of 3,537 Mm3, she said.

At the time of writing this report, the Kerala government was yet to decide on what course of action it would take regarding the issue, following the judgment of the Supreme Court on February 27. Mohan V. Katarki, an advocate who had appeared for Kerala in the Supreme Court, told Frontline that the Division Bench had only partly noted the contentions of the State and that Kerala's main argument that the Pamba and the Achankovil are intra-State rivers on which Parliament had no competency to legislate by reference to entry 56 of List 1 for transferring water from Kerala to Tamil Nadu had not been recorded by it.

“The effect of the judgment is that it allows one to argue both ways: that since the issue has not been decided, it can be opened again; or that since it has not been decided, it has been decided against the State. It thus creates a grey area,” he said.

“We feel that the Kerala government has been negligent in informing the court about the real situation on the ground, that the Pamba and the Achankovil are actually water-deficit river basins. There were several occasions in the past years, when the Aranmula boat race, conducted as part of the annual regatta there, had to be postponed because there was no water in the Pampa during the monsoon season. The river course along the road to Sabarimala runs dry frequently; so do the drinking water tanks in the Pamba and the Achankovil rivers,” said N.K. Sukumaran Nair, general secretary of the Pampa Parirakshana Samiti, an organisation dedicated to the cause of saving the Pamba.

The initial reaction of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy was that the judgment would not apply to Kerala or its rivers “as the order was applicable only to concurring States”. “Kerala has opposed the interlinking of rivers and the judgment will hence not apply to us,” he said.

Premachandran, however, said that it would be wrong for the State to come to such a conclusion because “the court seems to have issued a general direction to all the States after hearing the arguments raised by Kerala too”. The Supreme Court's direction seems to have reopened the whole issue of the Pamba-Achankovil-Vaippar project, and the State needs to tread carefully if its genuine interests are to be protected, he said.

http://www.frontline.in/stories/20120420290701900.htm

Fragile ecosystems
Kerala's rivers are part of unique, sensitive ecosystems, which would be disturbed by the river-linking project.
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Evvalavu theliva irukkaanunga ...

Forget about any diversion from Kerala.
Now they will talk about eco system etc when they want to build resorts they will break any rules.

any updates on this project?
குளத்தை காணோம் சார்: புகார் கொடுத்தவரின் பேரனைதேடி ஓடினார் ஆர்.டி.ஓ. (http://www.dinamalar.com/News_detail.asp?Id=441664)

திருச்சி:திருச்சி உறையூரில் இருந்த, பாப்பான்குளத்தை ஆக்கிரமித்து, அடுக்குமாடி குடியிருப்பு கட்டியுள்ளதாக, புகார் கொடுத்த மனுதாரரின் பேரனிடம், திருச்சி ஆர்.டி.ஓ., நேற்று விசாரணை நடத்தினார்.

1951ல் புகார்:ஸ்ரீரங்கம் புதுத்தெருவைச் சேர்ந்தவர் வத்துமலை தேவர், 96. சுதந்திரப் போராட்டத் தியாகியான இவர், பசும்பொன் முத்துராமலிங்க தேவருக்கு மெய்க்காப்பாளராக பணியாற்றியவர். தற்போது, நாமக்கல் மாவட்டம், குமாரபாளையத்தில் வசிக்கிறார்.திருச்சி உறையூர் பாளையம் பஜாரில் இருந்த, பாப்பான்குளம் ஆக்கிரமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளதாக, 1951ம் ஆண்டு, அப்போதைய தமிழக முதல்வர் குமாரசாமி ராஜாவிடம் புகார் கொடுத்தார்.

61 ஆண்டுகளாக நடவடிக்கை இல்லை:அப்போதைய, திருச்சி கலெக்டர் சார்லஸ் ஜான் என்பவரை விசாரிக்க, முதல்வர் உத்தரவிட்டார். கலெக்டர் நேரில் பார்வையிட்டும், எவ்வித நடவடிக்கையும் எடுக்கவில்லை. வத்துமலை தேவர், தொடர்ந்து புகார்களை அனுப்பிய போதும், அடுத்தடுத்து வந்த ஆட்சியாளர்களும், குளத்தை மீட்க நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கவில்லை.இந்நிலையில், பாப்பான்குளம் ஆக்கிரமிப்பு குறித்து, வத்துமலை தேவரின் பேரன் சுபாஷ் சந்திரபோசிடம் நேற்று, திருச்சி ஆர்.டி.ஓ., சம்பத் விசாரணை நடத்தினார். "புகாரின் மீது உரிய நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும்' என்று உறுதியளித்தார்.

பாப்பான்குளம் ஆக்கிரமிப்பு குறித்து சுபாஷ் சந்திரபோஸ் கூறியதாவது:

ஆக்கிரமித்தது யார்?உறையூர், தாமலவாரூபாய கிராமம், பாப்பான்குளத்தை, உறையூரைச் சேர்ந்த மாநகராட்சி முன்னாள் கவுன்சிலர் கிருஷ்ணனும், அவரது தம்பி முத்துராமலிங்கமும் ஆக்கிரமித்த போது, என் தாத்தா புகார் மனு அளித்தார்.கடந்த, 61 ஆண்டாக, அவர் திருச்சி கலெக்டர்கள், தமிழக முதல்வர்களுக்கு பல்வேறு மனுக்களை அனுப்பியும், இதுவரை எவ்வித நடவடிக்கையும் இல்லை. இதற்கிடையே ஆக்கிரமிப்பாளர்கள், ஸ்ரீரங்கத்தைச் சேர்ந்த விருத்தாசலம் மகன் கோபிநாதனுக்கு, மூன்று லட்ச ரூபாய்க்கு விற்று விட்டனர்.குளத்தை வாங்கிய கோபிநாதன், "விக்னேஷ் அவென்யூ' என்ற பெயரில், மூன்று மாடி கட்டடத்தை எழுப்பிவிட்டார். அதில் உள்ள, 125 குடியிருப்புகளில், 500க்கும் மேற்பட்டோர் வசிக்கின்றனர்.

மல்லித்தான் குளமாகியபாப்பான்குளம்:பாப்பான்குளம் குறித்து, அதிகாரிகள், தமிழக அரசுக்கு, தப்பும் தவறுமாக தகவல் கொடுத்து வருகின்றனர். இதை மெய்ப்பிக்க, குளத்தின் அருகே உள்ள இடத்தில், எல்லை விவரம் கேட்ட போது, பாப்பான்குளத்தின் மற்றொரு பெயரான, "மல்லித்தான் குளம்' என்று குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளனர்.மற்றொரு தகவலில், "அரசு புறம்போக்கு இடம்' என்று தவறாக பதியப்பட்டுள்ளதை மாற்றி, குளம் என்று பதிவு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளதாக தெரிவித்தனர். இன்னொரு தகவலில், குளத்தையோ, இடத்தையோ பற்றி குறிப்பிடாமல், "முறையான அனுமதி பெற்று, அடுக்கு மாடி குடியிருப்பு கட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது' எனத் தெரிவித்துள்ளனர்.

தவறான தகவலை பரப்பி குழப்பம்:இதே தவறான தகவல்களை, அரசுக்கும் கொடுத்துள்ளனர். குளத்தின் மீது, பல அடுக்கு மாடி கட்டடம் கட்டப்பட்டுள்ளதால், எப்போது வேண்டுமானாலும், கட்டடம், மண்ணில் புதையும் அபாயம் உள்ளது.எனவே, குடியிருப்புவாசிகளின் உயிருக்கு ஆபத்து ஏற்படும் முன், உடனடியாக அடுக்கு மாடி குடியிருப்புகளை அகற்றி, குளத்தை மீட்க வேண்டும்.இவ்வாறு அவர் கூறினார்.

குளத்தை ஆக்கிரமித்து அடுக்கு மாடி குடியிருப்பு கட்டப்பட்டுள்ளதாக புகார் கொடுத்த மனுதாரரின் பேரனிடம், திருச்சி ஆர்.டி.ஓ., சம்பத் நேற்று காலை விசாரணை நடத்தியதால் பரபரப்பு ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது.

I dont SG is fighting with KA, KL and AP for river water. But God has blessed TN with numerous lakes. TN has lake in almost all the village. Most of them are sufficient to supply water for drinking and irrigation. But they are abused to the core. A seperate dept similar to forest dept is required. All lakes has to be desilted and the water requirement of the village has to be assesed. Channels to link the lakes can be built to interlink them. If there is excess water in one lake it should be transferred to another lake. Encroachments on the banks should be removed. The excess water in the rivers during monsoons should be stored in the lakes for use in summer. The investment required will be less compared to river interlinking.

Please advice if my views are feasible.

@ arun82:

God did not bless TN with lakes.

It is our forefathers, Rajas and even the English who planned these lakes and constructed them.

In my native district - present Virudhunagar earlier Ramnad composite - almost all the rain water from the western ghtas is channeled and as per the volume of flooding, the excess water spills over to the lakes (Kanmais) downstream which are connected in series.

But during the last 25 to 30 years, all these Kanmais & Channels are encroached and flooding happens very often wasting the precious water.

The last such futuristic project was planned by Sathyamoorthy of Congress under Kamaraj regime , I think. He did the Puzhal, Cholavaram & Chembarambakkam projects for Chennai city.

MGR's intention of Krishna Water Project was good but was cheated squarely by AP.

@ arun82:

God did not bless TN with lakes.

It is our forefathers, Rajas and even the English who planned these lakes and constructed them.

In my native district - present Virudhunagar earlier Ramnad composite - almost all the rain water from the western ghtas is channeled and as per the volume of flooding, the excess water spills over to the lakes (Kanmais) downstream which are connected in series.

But during the last 25 to 30 years, all these Kanmais & Channels are encroached and flooding happens very often wasting the precious water.

The last such futuristic project was planned by Sathyamoorthy of Congress under Kamaraj regime , I think. He did the Puzhal, Cholavaram & Chembarambakkam projects for Chennai city.

MGR's intention of Krishna Water Project was good but was cheated squarely by AP.


Oops my mistake. Now I remember my early day history lesson Ashokar maram natar , kolam vethunar.

These kanmais and eri has been either encroached or turned to drainage channels. if the govt brings out a scheme to clean and desilt these lakes then we might not have water scarcity. I think thatta bought one scheme but no good results.

Today MNRE funds are mostly spent for desilting of these lakes but they are eating by oppicers and lazy peoples.

Earlier during famine period and non cultivation period (Enga oorla, oru crop per year dhan mudiyum. Thanni kedaikkadhu), Govt used to provide rice for work under Food for Work program.

They really used to desilt lakes and the channels so that during the next rainy season / flooding, excess water will be carried to next kanmai.

Ippo TASMAC only gaining. They should not give cash.

Kurichi, Kuniamuthur water woes to end soon (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3290205.ece)



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TN gets Centres pat for setting up RWH system


After securing first rank in providing potable water to rural habitations along with a special bonus, Tamil Nadu has been rated number one by the Water Resources Ministry in implementing rain water harvesting projects.

According to the Ministry data, TN has had the maximum chunk of recharging structures implemented during the XI plan. The State has 273 recharge structures, the highest among all states.� “It is not just numbers. We are quite happy with the way the TN government is planning the whole thing. There are quite serious about it and the overall implementation is also very good,” said an official with the Water Resources Ministry.

The state had made rainwater harvesting mandatory in 2003 during Chief Minister J Jayalaithaa’s regime.� The State had faced severe drought for two consecutive years before that and the order was issued to amend the building rules of local bodies that made it mandatory for building owners and occupants to provide for rain harvesting structure.� “No other State has taken to water harvesting the way TN has had. May be because the memories of drought is still afresh,’’ said the Ministry official.� The second best in rainwater harvesting is Karnataka with 192 structures followed by UP.

The worst performer in this category is Bihar followed by West Bengal.� While Bihar has built only 11 recharge structures under the XI plan, West Bengal has only 30 structures. Tamil Nadu had secured the ‘first rank’ in providing safe drinking water to rural habitations with it scoring highest marks in all indicators.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tn-gets-centres-pat-for-setting-up-rwh-system/246495-60-118.html

Drinking water schemes to cover 8 districts

Drinking water schemes seeking to serve 44.36 lakh people in eight districts will be implemented at a cost of over 1,500 crore in 2012-13, Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development K.P.Munusamy told the Assembly on Monday.

Replying to the debate on the allocation for departments under him, the Minister said the schemes, to be implemented in Cuddalore, Villupuram, Pudukottai, Theni, Sivaganga, Coimbatore, Tirupur and Tirunelveli district, would benefit 8,134 habitations in five Municipal Corporations, 17 town panchayats and 63 panchayat unions.

The projects include the Theni-Allinagaram Municipality drinking water scheme and Thamiraparani combined drinking water scheme to cover 163 rural habitations, including the Keezhapaavoor town panchayat, Papkudi, Kadayam and Keezhapaavoor panchayat union in Tirunelveli district. The total cost of the projects is Rs 1,527.63 crore.

Besides, surveys would be conducted for six combined drinking water schemes in Coimbatore, Tirupur, Salem, Thanjavur, Tiruchi and Dindigul in 2012-13. The Minister said the Chief Minister had cleared the appointment of 69 Assistant Engineers and 73 junior engineers for conducting survey and speed up both the projects.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3297654.ece

Plan ready to revive RWH structures

Urban local bodies (ULBs) have drawn up an action plan for revival, rehabilitation and maintenance of rain water harvesting (RWH) structures, Municipal Administration and Rural Development Minister K.P. Munusamy said on Monday.

Initiating a debate on the demands for grants of his departments, Mr. Munusamy said that the ULBs had taken up various measures for the rehabilitation of the structures. Wherever they were under repair, the ULBs had been asked to restore them. The awareness programme on RWH was being continued in all ULBs. As part of the government's decision to implement underground sewerage (UGS) schemes in all ULBs, the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board had prepared detailed project reports for 117 municipalities and three corporations – Tiruchi, Coimbatore and Tuticorin. The projects for the municipalities would cost Rs.7,100 crore and those of the corporations, Rs.1,570 crore.

In view of the serious financial situation of the New Tirupur Area Development Corporation Limited, a corporate debt restructuring package had been worked out in consultation with lenders. They had agreed to reschedule the debt, reduce interest rate and convert 15 per cent of the debt into equity. The State government would undertake to buy an additional 100 million litres a day (MLD) of water from the company at the opportunity cost of Rs.21 per kilo litre.

The Tirupur Corporation would meet the entire variable charges (now fixed at Rs.6 per kl and subject to annual escalation) and 10 per cent of the fixed charges of Rs.15 per kl. The government would meet 90 per cent of the fixed charges. In addition, the existing charges for domestic water supply would be enhanced. To reduce the debt and meet the shortfall of resources required to service the debt, the government would give Rs.114 crore over three years as equity share capital to the company.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3297657.ece

how come we missed such news??:nuts:

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Six river inter-linking projects will be implemented: Minister

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The State government has planned to carry out six projects of inter-linking of rivers in the State at a total cost of Rs. 9,015 crore as part of its efforts to achieve optimal utilisation of water resources.

Stating this while initiating a debate in the Assembly on the demands for grants of the Public Works Department, PWD Minister K.V. Ramalingam explained the rationale behind the formulation of the projects.

He referred to the spatial and time difference in the distribution of rainfall, which took place over three to four months.

Water transfer from water surplus areas to deficit areas; inter-basin/sub-basin transfer after taking care of local riparian obligations; river interlinking on the basis of diversion of flood water and resorting to pumping schemes on the basis of terrain requirements formed part of the Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's vision of utilising the available water potential.

Ground water resources would also be developed through recharging and augmenting of the resource through measures such as construction of check dams and recharge wells.

Water transfer

The Pennaiyar (Krishnagiri reservoir)-Palar link envisaged water transfer from Krishnagiri dam to Kallar, a tributary of Palar, over a period of 15 days at the rate of 5 days a month from October to December. This Scheme would stabilise an existing command area of about 2,931 acres.

As part of the Pennaiyar (Sathanur dam)-Palar link, water would be conveyed from the Sathanur dam to the Cheyyar river, another tributary of Palar, through a new head regulator and a 23.55-km-long canal. A feeder canal for 38.72 km, would be formed to feed the Nandan Channel.

About 10,700 acres of ayacut would be benefitted. This had been proposed to be executed with the funds of the State government.

Aimed at covering 30,430 acres in Salem, Namakkal, Perambalur and Tiruchi districts, the Cauvery-Sarabanga link proposed to divert water from the Mettur dam through a 182-km-long canal to augment irrigation potential in the sub-basins of Sarabanga, Thirumanimuthar and Musiri.

As part of the Avinashi-Athikadavu flood canal project, 2,000 cubic feet per second of Bhavani water would be diverted during floods to 71 tanks and 538 ponds in Coimbatore, Tirupur and Erode districts. Funds of the Central government would be sought.

A 258-km-long canal from the Kattalai Barrage would be formed to transfer flood water to the Gundar. On completion, about 1.86 lakh acres would be stabilised, besides bridging a gap of around 33,000 acres. Tiruchi and Srirangam would be protected from floods. This project had been posed to the Union government for assistance.

As a pre-condition to the link, a barrage was being constructed downstream Kattalai bed regulator in Karur district at a cost of Rs. 234 crore.

The government also proposed to build check dams over those rivers that were sought to be covered under the projects of inter-linking of rivers.

On the Tamiraparani-Karumeniyar-Nambiyar link, the Minister informed the House that under the first and second stages of the project costing Rs. 369 crore, an expenditure of around 174 crore was till now incurred

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3336784.ece

Yes Arul.. one of the big news..
here is the same from DMR (http://www.dinamalar.com/News_Detail.asp?Id=451969)..

சென்னை: மாநில நதிகளை இணைக்கும் திட்டத்தின் ஒரு பகுதியாக, திருவண்ணாமலை மாவட்டத்தில் உள்ள பெண்ணையாற்றை, பாலாற்றின் கிளையாறான செய்யாற்றுடன் இணைக்கும் 200 கோடி மதிப்பீட்டிலான திட்டத்தை மாநில அரசின் நிதியில் இருந்து செயல்படுத்த முதல்வர் உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளாக பொதுப்பணித்துறை அமைச்சர் ராமலிங்கம் தெரிவித்தார்.

பொதுப்பணித்துறை மானியக் கோரிக்கையில் அமைச்சர் அளித்த பதிலுரை: தமிழகத்தின் சராசரி ஆண்டு மழையளவு 911.6 மில்லி மீட்டர் ஆகும். நமக்கு பெரும்பான்மையான மழையளவு, வட கிழக்குப் பருவமழையின் மூலம் கிடைக்கிறது. தமிழகத்தில் பாயும் 34 ஆறுகள் 17 ஆற்று வடிநிலங்களின் கீழ் அமைகின்றன. இந்த 17 வடிநிலங்கள், 127 உபவடிநிலங்களாக தொகுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன.

மொத்த நீராதாரம்: தமிழகத்தில் 85 பெரிய அணைகளும் நான்கு சிறிய அணைகளும் அமைந்துள்ளன. இவற்றின் மொத்தக் கொள்ளளவு 238.58 டி.எம்.சி., ஆகும். இவை தவிர, 13,699 ஏரிகள் மூலம் சுமார் 21 லட்சம் ஹெக்டேர் நிலம் பாசனம் பெற்று வருகின்றன. தமிழகத்தின் மொத்த மேற்பரப்பு நீராதாரம் 853 டி.எம்.சி., என கணக்கிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதில் அண்டை மாநிலங்களான கர்நாடகா, ஆந்திரா மற்றும் கேரளாவிலிருந்து பங்கீடாக பெறப்படும் 261 டி.எம். சி., நீரும் அடங்கும்.

ஆறுகளை இணைக்கும் திட்டம்: மாநிலத்திலுள்ள நீர்வள ஆதாரங்களின் மூலம் சேமித்து வைக்கப்படும் நீரானது குடிநீர், தொழிற்சாலைகள் ஆகியவற்றிற்கு பயன்பட்டாலும், பாசனத்திற்கான பயன்பாடு மிக அதிகமாக உள்ளது. மக்கள் தொகை பெருக்கம், நகரமயமாக்கல், தொழில்மயமாக்கல் போன்றவை காரணமாக, பாசனப் பரப்பை அதிகரிக்கும் வாய்ப்புகள் குறைகின்றன. எனவே, பாசனத்திறனை அதிகரிக்க, ஒரு முறைக்கு மேல், பாசனம் பெறக்கூடிய பாசனப் பரப்பை அதிகரிப்பது அவசியமாகிறது. மழை வெள்ளக் காலங்களில் கிடைக்கும் அனைத்து நீரையும் உரிய முறையில் பயன்படுத்தும் வகையில், தமிழக ஆறுகளை இணைக்கும் திட்டத்தை செயல்படுத்த முதல்வர் உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளார்.

ஐந்து பிரிவுகளாக... : இதன் மூலம், உபரி நீரானது பற்றாக்குறை பகுதிகளுக்கு திருப்பி விடப்படும். இத்திட்டத்திற்காக தேவைப்படும் ஆறுகளின் குறுக்கே தடுப்பணைகளைக் கட்டவும், அதன் மூலம், நிலத்தடி நீரை செறிவுட்டவும் முடியும். இத்திட்டம் ஐந்து பிரிவுகளாகப் பிரிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

* பெண்ணையாற்றில் கிருஷ்ணகிரி நீர்தேக்கம் முதல் பாலாறு வரை

* பெண்ணையாற்றில் சாத்தனூர் அணை முதல் பாலாறு வரை

* காவிரியில் மேட்டூர் அணை முதல் சரபங்கா ஆறு வரை

* அத்திக்கடவு - அவினாசி கால்வாய்

* காவிரியில் கட்டளை கதவணை முதல் குண்டாறு வரை

மாநில அரசின் நிதி: இதில், திருவண்ணாமலை மாவட்டத்தில் உள்ள பெண்ணையாற்றை, பாலாற்றின் கிளையாறான செய்யாற்றுடன் இணைக்க, புதிய தலை மதகு மற்றும் 23.55 மீ நீளமுள்ள இணைப்புக் கால்வாய் அமைக்க உத்தேசிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. சாத்தனூர் அணையின் 3 டி.எம்.சி., மிகை நீரினை செய்யாற்றுக்கு, திசை திருப்பி நந்தன் வாய்க்காலுக்கு கொண்டு செல்லும் பொருட்டு 38.72 மீ. நீளமுள்ள வழங்கு வாய்க்கால் அமைக்கப்படவுள்ளது. இத்திட்டத்திற்கான விரிவான திட்ட அறிக்கை 200 கோடி ரூபாய் மதிப்பில், விரைவுபடுத்தப்பட்ட பாசன பயன் திட்டத்தின் கீழ் மத்திய அரசுக்கு அனுப்பப்பட்டுள்ளது. இருப்பினும், மத்திய அரசின் நிதியுதவியை பெறும்வரை காத்திராமல், மாநில அரசின் நிதியிலிருந்து பணியைத் தொடங்க முதல்வர் ஜெயலலிதா உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளார். இவ்வாறு அவர் தெரிவித்தார்.

Karnataka decided to construct big pumping station across south Pennar river and divert the water to "worthur" lake for irrigation in Karnataka.
It will have huge impact in Tiruvannamalai, krishnagiri district.
http://www.vikatan.com/article.php?aid=18749&sid=511&mid=2#cmt241
தமிழர்கள் எவ்வளவு அடிச்சாலும் தாங்குறாங்க... ரொம்ப நல்லவங் கடா’ என்ற மனநிலைக்கு கர்நாடகா வந்துவிட்டதாகவே தெரி கிறது. காவிரிச் சிக்கல் போதாது என்று தென்பெண்ணை ஆற்றிலும் விவகா​ரத்தைக் கிளப்பியிருக்கிறது கர்நாடக அரசு.

காவிரி, தென்பெண்ணை இரண்டும் கர்நாடகாவில் இருந்து தமிழகத்​துக்கு வரும் ஆறுகள். காவிரி ஆறு, மேட்டூர், திருச்சி வழியாக தஞ்சாவூர் வரை செல்லக்கூடியது. தென்பெண்ணை ஆறு, கிருஷ்ணகிரி, தர்மபுரி, திருவண்ணாமலை வழியாக கடலூர் வரை செல்கிறது. காவிரி தொடர்பான விவகாரமும் வழக்குகளும் ஊர் அறிந்த சமாசாரம். இப்போது தென்பெண்ணை ஆற்றிலும் பிரச்னையைத் தொடங்கி இருப்பதால், கிருஷ்ணகிரி, தர்மபுரி மாவட்ட விவசாயிகள் கொந்த​ளித்துக் கிடக்கிறார்கள்.

சமீபத்திய சிக்கலுக்குப் போகும் முன்பு, தென்​பெண்ணை ஆற்றினால் பயன் அடையும் பகுதிகளைப் பற்றிய ஒரு சுருக்கம்... கர்நாடக மாநில நந்தி மலையில் இருந்து பெங்களூரு நகருக்குள் நுழைகிறது. இந்த நகரின் ஒட்டுமொத்தக் கழிவுநீரும் தென்பெண்ணை ஆற்றின் வழியாக தமிழகத்துக்கு வருகிறது. ஓசூர் தாலுக்காவில் உள்ள 'கொடியாளம்’ என்ற பகுதியில் நுழையும் இந்தத் தண்ணீர் கெலவரப்பள்ளி அணையில் தேக்கப்படுகிறது. உள்ளூர் தேவைக்குப் போக, ராயக்கோட்டை பகுதிகளுக்குச் சிறு கால்வாய்கள் மூலம் அனுப்பப்படுகிறது. மேலும், அதிகப்படியான நீர் கிருஷ்ணகிரி கே.ஆர்.பி. அணைக்கு வந்து சேருகிறது. அங்கே இருந்து தர்மபுரி மாவட்டம் ஈச்சம்பாடி அணைக்கும், கிருஷ்ணகிரி - திருவண்ணாமலை எல்லையில் உள்ள பாம்பாறு அணைக்கும் செல்கிறது. திருவண்ணாமலை மாவட்ட சாத்தனூர் அணையும் இந்த நீரால்தான் நிரப்பப்படுகிறது. உபரி நீர் இறுதியில் கடலூர் மாவட்டத்தைக் கடந்து கடலை எட்டுகிறது. இந்த ஆற்று நீரில் பெரும்பகுதி பெங்களூருவின் கழிவு நீர் கலந்து இருக்கிறது என்ற​போதிலும், செல்லும் வழி முழுக்க தமிழக விளைநிலங்களை வளப்படுத்திச் செல்கிறது. இதற்கும் ஒரு முடிவு கட்டும் விதமாகத்தான், தென்​பெண்ணை ஆற்றங்கரையில் புதிய திட்டம் ஒன்றைச் செயல்படுத்தத் தயாராகி வருகிறது கர்நாடக அரசு.

இதுபற்றி நம்மிடம் பேசினார் கிருஷ்ணகிரி மாவட்டத்தைச் சேர்ந்த மனித உரிமைக்கான குடிமக்கள் இயக்கத்தின் மாநிலக் குழு உறுப்​பினர் சக்திவேல். ''தென்பெண்ணையில் வர்றது கழிவு கலந்த தண்ணீராகவே இருந்தாலும் அது தமிழகத்தின் பல ஆயிரம் ஏக்கர் நிலப்பரப்பு செழிப்புக்குக் காரணமா இருக்கு. இப்போ அந்தத் தண்ணீருக்கும் சிக்கல் வந்துடுச்சு. அதாவது தமிழக எல்லைக்குச் சற்று முன்பாகவே தத்தனூர், மாதேப்பள்ளி கிராமங்களை ஒட்டி பெண்ணையாற்றங்கரையில் 'பம்ப்பிங் ஸ்டேஷன்’ ஒண்ணு அமைக்கப்போறாங்க. அதன் மூலம் ஆற்று நீரை உறிஞ்சி ஒரத்தூர் பகுதியில் இருக்கும் பெரிய ஏரியை நிறைக்கப்போறாங்களாம். அந்த நீரை சுமார் 157 ஏரிகளுக்குப் பங்கிட்டு அனுப்புறதுக்குத் திட்டம் வச்சிருக்காங்க. இதற்கான முதல் கட்டப் பணியைத் தொடங்கிட்​டாங்க.

கோலார் மாவட்ட மாலூர் தொகுதியின் எம்.எல்.ஏ-வான (பி.ஜே.பி) கிருஷ்ணய்யா செட்டி சமீபத்தில் நடந்த விழாவில், 'வெகுவிரைவில் பயன்பாட்டுக்கு வரவுள்ள இந்தத் திட்டத்தால் கோலார் மாவட்டத்தின் 150-க்கும் மேற்பட்ட ஏரிகள் நிறையப்போகுது. இதனால், மாவட்டம் முழுக்க முப்போகமும் நெல் விளைவிக்கலாம்’னு சந்தோஷமாப் பேசியிருக்கார். அதன் பிறகுதான் இப்படி ஒரு பம்ப்பிங் ஸ்டேஷன் விஷயம் வெளியில் தெரிய ஆரம்பிச்சிருக்கு. இந்தத் திட்டத்தை தமிழக அரசு உடனே தலையிட்டுத் தடுக்கணும். இல்லைன்னா நமக்கான நீர் ஆதாரங்கள் ஒவ்வொண்ணாக் கையைவிட்டுப் போயிடும்'' என்று எச்சரிக்கை மணியடித்தார்.

ஓசூர் பகுதியில் அனைத்துக் கட்சிப் பிரமுகர்களால் சமீபத்தில், 'தென்பெண்ணை ஆறு பாதுகாப்பு இயக்கம்’ என்ற அமைப்பு உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. முன்னாள் எம்.எல்.ஏ-வான வெங்கடசாமி தலைமையில் கடந்த 14-ம் தேதி ஓசூரில் கலந்தாய்வுக் கூட்டமும் நடத்தப்பட்டது. அவரிடம் பேசியபோது, ''கர்நாடகா அரசின் இந்தத் திட்டத்தை எதிர்க்க அனைத்துக் கட்சிகள், சமூக அமைப்புகள், விவசாயிகள் உள்ளிட்ட அனைவரும் ஒரே அணியில் இணைஞ்சிருக்கோம். பெண்ணையாற்றில் நமக்கு இருக்கும் உரிமையை கர்நாடகாவினர் பறிக்க எந்த வகையிலும் இடம்தரக் கூடாது. இந்த விஷயத்தில் தமிழகத்துக்குச் சாதகமான நிலை ஏற்படும் வரை தொடர்ந்து தீவிர போராட்டங்கள் நடத்தப்படும்'' என்றார்.

மாநில உறவுகள் வலுப்படட்டும் என்று வள்ளுவர் சிலையை கர்நாடகாவிலும், சர்வக்ஞர் சிலையை சென்னையிலும் திறந்தனர். ஆனால், அவர்கள் இருவரும் சொன்னபடி நடப்பதற்கு கர்நாடக அரசியல்வாதிகள் தயாராக இல்லையே!

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Villages in state to budget use of water


With the acute power shortage overshadowing everything else now, the key word this summer is judicious use of available resources. While round-theclock power supply is beyond government means, an agency of former and current government officials is trying to ensure steady water supply.

The Centre of Excellence for Change has embarked on a water resource mapping and budgeting exercise in 80 villages in drought-prone areas across Tamil Nadu this year. “We launched the exercise last week in a village called Vizhukkam in Tindivanam block in Villupuram district,” said a water resources government official from CEC. “We first begin by approaching the elderly in the village. We quiz them about the water sources that were present in the area in the past, which ones have dried up and trace the causes for it, like blockage and encroachments. We also map the small local ponds and groundwater levels.”

The primary focus of the exercise is to ensure judicious use of water for agriculture using drip irrigation and precise allocation of resources. “For example, if the water resources in a village can only irrigate 50 out of 100 acres of paddy fields in a village, we first ask them to implement drip irrigation to increase the capacity to 75 acres,” he said. “And then, we ask the farmers to form a committee and ensure that only 75 acres are irrigated that year and accordingly each farmer is earmarked a portion of his farm that will be allowed to be irrigated.”

Such an exercise will prevent excessive and incessant use of borewell and thus deplete precious groundwater table, pointed out the official. “Since agriculture uses 86% of fresh water resources in an area, it is necessary that we ask them to budget their use,” he said. “Additionally, we also sensitize households, self help groups and children to prevent wastage of drinking wate0r from leaking pipes and taps.”

Eighty villages in Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, Villupuram, Coimbatore, Pollachi, Dharmapuri, Madurai, Sivaganga, Salem, Namakkal and Rameswaram have been shortlisted for this. “We had done a pilot project last year with 60 villages and it was a success in 40 of them,” said the officer. “So we are taking up more this year.”

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Possibilities to prevent Water shortage for Irrigation

Interlinking Rivers(allready discussed)

Build more Check Dams across rivers(espicially 10 to 15 check dams across Cauvery River)

Build more Barrages across Cauvery(3 to 4) and Thamiraparani River(2 to 3)

Transfer Sewage Treated Water through Pipeline from Chennai to Other Towns like Dindivanam, Villupuram, Tiruvallur for Irrigation.

build Low cost Salt Water Desalination Plant in Ramanathapuram for Irrigation in dry areas of Ramanathapuram.

TN govt seeks Rs 9,090 cr for intra-linking rivers (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/tn-govt-seeks-rs-9090-cr-for-intra-linking-rivers/476373/)

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has urged the Planning Commission to secure assistance of Rs 9,090 crore under the Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) for intra-linking of rivers and flood management. The state government has said that proposals had already been sent to the Centre in this regard.

In her speech during the finalisation of the Annual Plan for Tamil Nadu for 2012-2013 with the Union Planning Commission in New Delhi on Monday, Jayalalithaa said that Tamil Nadu had little surplus surface water resources.

In order to optimise its limited resources, the state has proposed linking of the Cauvery and Gundar rivers at a cost of Rs 5,619.44 crore and linking the Thamiraparani river with Karumeniar and Nambiar rivers at a cost of Rs 453.44 crore.

“I had specifically requested the Union government for financial support for these two massive schemes. However, I am disappointed at the lack of response since the alternative access to funds under the AIBP has also been denied to Tamil Nadu”.

Despite the Union Planning Commission’s recommendation for financial assistance to Tamil Nadu under the Flood Management Programme, no funds were released during 2011-2012, the chief minister said.

The chief minister said that on the state government’s part, a plan had been chalked out for an ambitious programme for restoring over 39,000 water bodies in Tamil Nadu to their original storage capacity by converging various schemes.

Meanwhile, the chief minister also said the the Union government’s meagre support to the Swarna Jayanthi Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) under-estimates the pressing problem of urban poverty.

Being closer to the urban poor of the state, the Tamil Nadu government has launched the Tamil Nadu Urban Livelihood Mission with an initial outlay of Rs 200 crore. This programme is designed to tackle urban poverty, mainly through providing livelihood security to the urban poor.

The chief minister asked the Union Planning Commission to persuade the Centre to address this problem in a mission mode.

The state government has been implementing numerous welfare programmes and some of these schemes share common goals with similar central schemes. This would facilitate the effective implementation of such well-grounded popular state schemes if the states could access more central funds, Jayalalithaa said.

Though it is not with reference to TN alone, I want to highlight this Water Privatisation menace.

http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Water_Wars.html?id=J7CGlu3qAOIC&redir_esc=y

http://toxicswatch.blogspot.in/2012/06/water-wars.html

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main48.asp?filename=Ne290111Thewater.asp

http://infochangeindia.org/water-resources/features/water-wars-in-the-us-lessons-for-india.html

http://www.dst.gov.in/scientific-programme/plan-document.pdf

http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2006/2040.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1137439/

TN: Drop Rs 2, draw 16 litres of clean drinking water (http://newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/article567312.ece)

In a novel scheme, the Nagamalai Pudukkottai Panchayat has introduced water supply to its residents through a vending machine system.

As per the system residents will have to drop two one rupee coins in a box and the machine will dispense 16 litres of water purified in a Reverse Osmosis Plant (ROP). This initiative of the panchayat is aimed at providing quality potable water and preventing the spread the waterborne diseases.

The panchayat has installed a RO plant which can purify up to 2,000 litres per hour in NGO Colony. The purified water is dispensed using a valve system controlled electronically through a coin box akin to a public telephone booth. The valve has been calibrated to open for 22 seconds when two one rupee coins were inserted. This dispenses 16 litres of water.

Prakash, a resident of NGO Colony said, “At a time when people are accustomed to use treated water, the civic body’s initiative is a welcome step.”

One could see people thronging the booth with pots and bubble cans, on Saturday, the second day of the paid water-dispensing scheme. Earlier for around 10 days the water was supplied free of cost to test the efficacy of the method.

The panchayat administration also plans to introduce a biometric system for dispensing the purified water shortly. Under this system, residents, who deposit Rs 250 to Rs 500 in advance, would be issued with a miscellaneous receipt and the same will be entered in a computer attached with a thumb impression decoder.

The thumb impression of the person, who deposits the amount, will be captured using a sensor. The person can get water from the booth by simply pressing his/her thumb in the sensor. They will get water till there is balance in his or her account. Once the entire amount is exhausted, the person can once again deposit a particular amount to collect water at the rate of Rs. 2 per 16 litres.

Talking about the scheme KCP Jayakumar, the Panchayat president of the Nagamala Pudukkottai said “We have devised the scheme to prevent water borne diseases. Though the cost of the RO system alone worked out to Rs 6 lakh, the cost of the entire system is around Rs 12 lakh taking into account the sinking of bore well and laying the pipe line for 2 km”.

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Safe and sweet: Residents fetching water from the dispenser at Nagamalai Pudukottai. | Express photo

Great Initiative. Hope other guys will learn from this.

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http://newindianexpress.com/incoming/article567299.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/Drop-2%2C-Draw-16-L-of.jpg
Safe and sweet: Residents fetching water from the dispenser at Nagamalai Pudukottai. | Express photo

Great Initiative. Hope other guys will learn from this.

^^This is wonderful society ...

gud post and nice initiative

"Pandiyaru" starts from TN (Devala in Goodalur (Nilgiri Dt) and flows in kerala before merges to Arabian sea.
This region gets 7000 mm rainfall every year and Pandiyaru gets enough water.
There are efforts to build a dam across this year from 70s to store 14 TMC water and to generate 250 MW electricity.
due to environmental constraints, Kerala's non co-operation, this project was put on hold for the last 45 years.
when TN is facing troubles from AP(Palaru), Cauvery and SouthPennar(KA), Mullai periyar (Kerala), its high time for TN govt to look into Pandiyaru for effective utilization.
தமிழகம் திரும்புமா பாண்டியாறு?
காவிரி, பெரியாறு, பாலாறு போன்ற வற்றை முறையே... கர்நாடகம், கேரளா, ஆந்திரா ஆகிய மூன்று மாநிலங்களும் தடுத்து நிறுத்திவருகின்றன. இந்த சூழலில்தான், 'நம் தமிழ்நாட்டில் உருவாகி கேரளக் கடலில் கலக்கும் பாண்டியாறைக் கவனி யுங்கள்’ என்று உரக்கக் குரல் கொடுக்கிறார்கள், கூடலூர் மக்கள்.

இந்தியாவில் அதிக மழை பெய்யும் இடம் சிரபுஞ்சி என்றால், இரண்டாவது இடத்தில் இருக் கிறது தமிழ்நாட்டில் கூடலூர் அருகில் உள்ள தேவாலா. இங்கே ஆண்டுதோறும் தோராயமாக 7,000 மில்லி மீட்டர் மழை பெய்கிறது. இங்கு உற்பத்தி ஆகும் பாண்டியாறுக்கு நீர் ஆதாரமாக இருப்பது தேவாலா, பந்தலூர் மற்றும் ஓவேலிப் பகுதிகள். இந்த ஆறு கேரளத்தில் நுழைந்த பிறகு புன்னம்புழா என்ற பெயரில் அழைக்கப் படுகிறது.

பாண்டியாற்றின் குறுக்கே அணை கட்டுவது என்று 1968-ம் ஆண்டிலேயே முடிவு எடுக்கப் பட்டது. அப்போது பொதுப் பணித் துறை அமைச்சராக இருந்த கருணாநிதி, 'கூடலூர் மரப்பாலம் அருகே அணை கட்டினால், 14 டி.எம்.சி. தண்ணீரைத் தேக்கிவைக்க முடியும். 250 மெகா வாட் மின்சாரமும் தயாரிக்க முடியும்’ என்று அறிவித்தார். ஆனால், 'அணை கட்டினால் வனச்சூழல் பாதிக்கும்’ என்று காரணம் காட்டப்பட்டு, அந்தத் திட்டம் கிடப்பில் போடப்பட்டது. மீண்டும் 1998-ல் பாண்டியாறில் அணை கட்டுவதற்குப் பதில் தண்ணீரைத் தமிழகத் துக்குத் திருப்ப வேண்டும் என்ற கருத்தை மாநில அரசு வலியுறுத்தியது. மீண்டும் சுற்றுச்சூழல் காரணம் காட்டி திட்டம் நிறுத்தப்பட்டது. இந்த விவகாரம்தான் மீண்டும் உயிர் பெற்று எழுந்துள்ளது.

விவசாயிகள் தொழிலாளர்கள் முன்னேற்ற சங்கத்தின் தலைவர் எம்.எஸ்.செல்வராஜ், ''மக்களுக்குத் தேவையான நீர் கிடைப்பதை, சுற்றுச்சூழல் காரணம் காட்டியே கடந்த 45 ஆண்டுகளாகத் தடுத்து வருகிறார்கள்.

ஆனால், காடுகளைக் காப்பதாகச் சொல்லி தவறான நடவடிக்கைகளில்தான் ஈடுபடுகிறார்கள். ஆண்டுக்குப் பல கோடி ரூபாய் பணத்தை வீணடிக்கிறார்கள். இருந்தும் இப்போது காடுகளில் மூங்கில் காடுகள் இருந்த இடங்களில் எல்லாம் பார்த்தீனியம் மண்டிக்கிடக்கின்றன. அதனால் தான் யானைகள் காடுகளைவிட்டு விவசாய நிலங்களுக்கு வருகின்றன. காட்டிலும் விலங்குகளுக்கு நீர்ப் பற்றாக்குறை இருக்கிறது. அதை எல்லாம் சரிசெய்யாமல், பாண்டியாறைத் திருப்பினால் வனச்சூழல் கெடும் என்பது சரியல்ல. கேரளாவுக்குள் நுழைந்து வீணாகக் கடலில் கலக்கும் தண்ணீர், தமிழகத்துக்குத் திருப்பினால் விலங்குகளுக்கும் மனிதர்களுக்கும் போதுமான அளவுக்குத் தண்ணீர் கிடைக்கும். நீலகிரி, கோவை, ஈரோடு மாவட்ட விவசாயிகளும் நல்ல முறையில் பயன்பெறுவார்கள்'' என்று பொங்கினார்.

நீலகிரி மாவட்ட வனத் துறை அதிகாரி ஒருவரிடம் விளக்கம் கேட்டோம். ''பாண்டியாறு என்பது கேரளத்தை நோக்கிப் பாயும் ஆறு. அதை தமிழகத்துக்குத் திருப்புவது என்றால், 15 கிலோ மீட்டர் தூரத்துக்கு தொங்கு பாலம் அமைக்க வேண்டும். இந்தப் பணி நடக்கும் நேரத்திலும் பின்னர் பராமரிக்கும் நேரத்திலும் அது இயற்கையின் அமைதிச் சூழலை நிச்சயம் பாதிக்கும். அந்தப் பாலத்தைப் பார்க்கவும் மக்கள் வருவார்கள். அதைத் தொடர்ந்து கடைகள், ஹோட்டல்கள், குடியிருப்புகள் வரும். அதனால் இது வீண் வேலை.

ஆனால், குழாய்கள் மூலம் தண்ணீரைத் திருப்பி அனுப்ப வழி இருக்கிறதா என்று ஆராய்ந்து பார்க்கலாம். பிரதமர்தான் தேசிய வனவிலங்கு வாரியத்தின் தலைவர். அதனால் வனத் துறை சம்பந்தமான முடிவுகள் எல்லாமே பிரதமரின் கையில்தான் இருக்கிறது.

புலிகள் சரணாலயத்தில் புலிகள் இருக்கின்றனவா என்பதை அவற்றின் நகக்கீறல்கள், கழிவுகள், கால்தடங்கள் மூலமாகக் கணக்கிட்டதில் சில குறைபாடுகள் இருந்தன. ஒரே புலியின் அடையாளங்களை மீண்டும் மீண்டும் கணக்கிட நேர்ந்தது. இப்போது காடுகளில் கேமராக்கள் பொருத்தி, புலிகளின் உடம்பில் உள்ள வரிகளை வைத்துக் கணக்கிடுவதால், நிச்சயம் குறைகள் இருக்காது. தமிழக வனத்தில் இப்போது சுமார் 200 புலிகள் இருக்கின்றன. முதுமலை, நீலகிரி, கூடலூர், களக்காடு, முண்டந்துறை, ஆனைமலை, மேகமலை, கொடைக்கானல், பழனி போன்ற பகுதிகளில் புலிகள் வசிக்கின்றன. உணவு, தண்ணீர் போன்ற தேவைகளுக்காக அவை இடம் பெயர்வது உண்டு. அதனால் களக்காட்டில் இந்த ஆண்டு புலிகள் இல்லை என்றால் அடுத்த ஆண்டு திரும்பி வரலாம். அவை வனத்தைவிட்டு வேறு எங்கும் செல்லப் போவதில்லை. யானைகள் மூங்கில் இல்லாமல் விவசாய நிலங்களுக்கு வருகிறது என்று சொல்வதை ஏற்க முடியாது. மூங்கில் குறைந்திருப்பதை அறிந்து பல இடங்களில் மூங்கில் கன்றுகள் நடப்பட்டு உள்ளன. ஓரிரு ஆண்டுகளில் அவைப் பூக்கத் தொடங்கிவிடும்.

காடுகளுக்கு அருகே இருக்கும் நிலங்களில் கரும்பு, நெல், வாழை, தென்னை போன்ற சுவையான பயிர்கள் வளர்ப்பதால்தான், யானைகள் அதைத் தேடி வருகின்றன. அதனால் வனத்தை ஒட்டிய பகுதிகளில் இத்தகைய பயிர்களைப் பயிரிடாமல் தவிர்க்க வேண்டும்'' என்றார்.

கோவை மாவட்ட பொதுப் பணித் துறை உதவி செயற்பொறியாளர் சிவலிங்கம், ''1965-ல் தமிழகத்துக்கும் கேரளத்துக்கும் இணக்கமான சூழல் இருந்த நேரத்தில், பாண்டியாறு-பொன்னம்புழா நீர்த் தேக்கத் திட்டம் போடப்பட்டது. மேற்கு நோக்கி கடலில் விழும் ஆழியாறு பரம்பிக்குளம், பெரியாறு போன்றவற்றைக் கிழக்கு நோக்கித் திருப்பியதுபோலவே இந்தத் திட்டமும் தமிழகத்துக்கு பயனளிக்கக்கூடியதாகும். இப்பகுதி புலிகள் காப்பகமாக மாறியதால், திட்டத்தை நிறைவேற்றுவதில் தொய்வு ஏற்பட்டது. அதனுடன் கேரள அரசும் எதிர்ப்பு தெரிவிக்கவே திட்டம் கைவிடப்பட்டது. நீராதாரம் மட்டும் இன்றி மின்சாரம் தயாரிக்கும் வாய்ப்பும் இருப்பதால் இரு மாநிலங்களும் பயன்பெறும் திட்ட வரையறையை இப்போது தமிழ்நாடு மின்சார வாரியம் உருவாக்கிக் கொடுத்துள்ளது. விரைவில் நல்ல முடிவு ஏற்படும்'' என்றார்.

பாண்டியாறைப் பயன்படுத்துவோம்!

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பல நூற்றாண்டுகளுக் கு முன்பு தமிழகத்தை ஆண்ட கரிகால சோழன் காவிரில் அடிக்கடி பெருவெள்ளம் வந்து மக்கள் துயரப்பட்டதைக் கண்டு அதைத் தடுக்க காவிரியில் ஒரு பெரிய அனையைக் கட்ட முடிவெடுத்தான் . ஆனால், அது சாதாரன விஷயம் அல்லவே . ஒரு நொடிக்கு இரண்டு லட்சம் கனநீர் பாயும் காவிரியின் தண்ணீர் மேல் அணைக்கட்டுவதற்க ும் ஒரு வழியைக்கண்டுபிடித்தார் கள் தமிழர்கள் .
நாம் கடல் தண்ணீரில் நிற்கும்போது அலை நம் கால்களை அணைத்துச் செல்லும். அப்போது பாதங்களின் கீழே குறுகுறுவென்றுமணல் அரிப்பு ஏற்பட்டு நம் கால்கள் இன்னும் மண்ணுக்குள்ளே புதையும் . இதைத்தான் சூத்திரமாகமாற்றினார்கள் அவர்கள் . காவிரி ஆற்றின் மீது பெரிய பெரிய பாறைகளைக் கொண்டுவந்து போட்டார்கள் . அந்தப் பாறைகளும் நீர் அரிப்பின் காரணமாக கொஞ்சம் கொஞ்சமாக மண்ணுக்குள் போகும் . அதன் மேல் வேறொரு பாறையை வைப்பார்கள்.
நடுவே தண்ணீரில் கரையாத ஒருவித ஒட்டும் களி மண்ணைப் புதிய பாறைகளில் பூசிவிடுவார்கள் . இப்போது இரண்டும் ஒட்டிக்கொள்ளும் . இப்படிப் பாறைகளின் மேல் பாறையைப் போட்டு,படுவேகத்தில் செல்லும் காவிரி நீர் மீது கட்டிய அணைதான் கல்லணை.
ஆங்கிலப் பொறியாளர் சர் ஆர்தர் காட்டன் தான் இந்த அணையைப் பற்றிப் பலகாலம் ஆராய்ச்சி செய்து இந்த உண்மைகளைக் கண்டறிந்தார் . காலத்தை வென்று நிற்கும் தமிழனின் பெரும் சாதனையைப் பார்த்து வியந்து அதை ' தி கிராண்ட் அணைக்கட் ' என்றார் சர் ஆர்தர் காட்டன் . அதுவே பிறகுஉலகமெங்கும் பிரபலமாயிற்று .
உலகிற்கு பறைச்சாற்றுவோம் தமிழனின் பெருமைகளை.. கண்டிப்பாக ஒவ்வொரு தமிழனுக்கும் தெரிய வேண்டிய செய்தி.
this article tells on Grand Anaicut was built over by Cauvery.
They have just keep piling the Hard stones on one another, applied a "paste" between them so that they can not fall.
more transplanation on the same later.

To harvest rainwater, 150 check dams would be constructed in the district, Minister for Highways and Minor Ports Edapadi K. Palaniswami said here on Sunday.

Inaugurating the newly-constructed Primary Agricultural Co-operative Credit Society at Rs. 17.07 lakh in Vellalapatti in Omalur taluk, Mr. Palaniswami said that preserving rainwater would enable the rise in ground water level, solve drinking water problems and provide adequate water supply for agricultural activities. Hence these check dams would serve the water requirements of the people. He also inaugurated the State’s first mobile Public Distribution Shop for tribal people that would serve the villagers in Ayodhiyapattinam block. Officials would distribute the monthly provisions at the door steps of the tribal people through the mobile van, based on a schedule.

These idiots should stop building check dams and demolish all existing ones. These rivulets almost always lead to lakes. Building check dams causes all lakes to dry up.

Interesting effort by Prof A.C. Kamaraj

The concept of linking rivers in India has been there for many years and is yet to move from the concept stage towards fruitful implementation. The idea originated when Sir. C. P. Ramaswamy lyer, an eminent educationist, had a far vision and suggested linking the rivers Ganges with Cauvery to solve our water problems. But this was only a suggestion and no concrete proposal was put forth.

Sri A. C. Kamaraj, an eminent Engineer and expert in water management has evolved the formation of a system by the name GANGAI-KUMARI National Waterways, which overcomes many of the demerits noticed in the previous schemes. Since the National Waterway travels at even height, no pumping is required in the entire stretch and the flow of water is purely by differential water head. The water way will provide flood control in many states.

Further the water transfer in the project is in either direction enabling water from Andhra to flow to Tamilnadu and Kerala. Similarly water will flow to Andhra from Kerala and Tamilnadu. As a result give and take policy is assured for all states in the project in the distribution of water. There will not be any interstate water problem and every state will get adequate water. In the National Waterways project we will be able to generate enormous power and that too cheap and pollution free hydroelectric power.
Er. A. C. Kamaraj, B.E. (Hons).,F.I.E,
Chairman National Waterways Development council
E-mail: ackamaraj@hotmail.com

Er. A.C.Kamaraj comes from a respectable farmer's family with rural background. He had very high academic career with 100% in maths in school final, first class in intermediate and Hons in Engineering from Annamalai University.
He was directly recruited in state PWD and gained very good experience in irrigation and water management including construction of buildings and dams.

He had his higher studies at London and toured extensively in U.S.A., Canada and European countries.
After two decades in PWD, he resigned to be a freelance. He is an agriculturist, industrialist and a social worker.

Complete website:
http://www.nationalwaterways.com/concept.php

TamilNadu Govt is going to take up desilting of 25000 water bodies in TN.
25 ஆயிரம் குளங்களை தூர்வார 1,400 கோடி ஒதுக்கீடு (http://www.dinamalar.com/News_Detail.asp?Id=561408)
ஊரக வளர்ச்சி மற்றும் ஊராட்சித் துறையின் கட்டுப்பாட்டில் உள்ள, 25 ஆயிரத்து 500 சிறிய, பெரிய குளங்கள் மற்றும் ஊரணிகளை, தூர்வாரும் பணிக்காக, 1,400 கோடி ரூபாய், ஒதுக்கிடு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது. கிராமப்புறங்களில், நிலத்தடி நீரை மேம்படுத்த வேண்டும் என்ற, முதல்வர் ஜெயலலிதாவின் உத்தரவை அடுத்து, இத்திட்டம் உருவாக்கப்பட்டு, செயலாக்கத்திற்கு வந்துள்ளது.

வரைபடங்கள் ஒப்பீடு:


மாநிலம் முழுவதும் உள்ள கிராமங்களின், தற்போதைய செயற்கைக்கோள் படங்களையும், 1960ம் ஆண்டின், கிராம வரைபடங்களையும் ஒப்பிட்டு, குளங்கள், அதன் நீர்வரத்து மற்றும் நீர் வெளியேற்றும் பாதைகள் கண்டறியப்பட்டு, அவை தூர்வாரப்படவுள்ளன.மத்திய அரசின், நூறு நாள் வேலைத் திட்டம் மற்றும் தமிழக அரசின் ஊரக உள்கட்டமைப்பு மேம்பாட்டுத் திட்டம் ஆகியவற்றின் மூலம், தூர்வாரும் பணிகள் செயல்படுத்தப்படும்.நிலத்தடி நீரை மேம்படுத்துவதோடு, கிராமப் புறங்களின் குடிநீரில் தன்னிறைவை எட்டுவது, குளங்களை நம்பியுள்ள பாசனப் பகுதிகளுக்கு நீரை அளிப்பது, இவற்றின் மூலம் கிராம பொருளாதாரத்தை மேம்படுத்துவது ஆகியவை, இத்திட்டத்தின் நோக்கங்கள். ஊரக வளர்ச்சி மற்றும் ஊராட்சித் துறையின் கட்டுப்பாட்டில் உள்ள, 18 ஆயிரத்து 500 சிறு குளங்கள், 3,000 சங்கிலித் தொடர் குளங்கள் மற்றும் 4,000 பெரிய ஊரணிகள் ஆகியவை, முழு கொள்ளளவு கொண்டவையாக மாற்றப்படும். குளங்களின் நீர் வரத்துப் பாதை, நீர் வெளியேறும் பாதை ஆகியவற்றை செப்பனிடுதல்; கரை, மதகுகளை வலுப்படுத்துதல்; ஆக்கிரமிப்புகளை அகற்றுதல் ஆகிய பணிகளும் மேற்கொள்ளப்படும்.

ஆண்டுக்கு 350 கோடி :


இத்திட்டம், 2010ம் ஆண்டு முதல், 2014ம் ஆண்டு வரை, செயல்பாட்டில் இருக்கும். ஓர் ஆண்டுக்கு, சராசரியாக, 350 கோடி ரூபாய் என, நான்கு ஆண்டுகளுக்கு செலவிடப்படுகிறது.மத்திய அரசின், கிராமப்புற வேலை உறுதியளிப்புத் திட்டத்தின் மூலம், குளங்கள் தூர்வாரும் பணியைச் செய்கின்றனர். மதகுகளை பலப்படுத்துதல் உள்ளிட்ட பிற பணிகளுக்கு, தமிழக அரசின் ஊரக உள்கட்டமைப்பு மேம்பாட்டுத் திட்ட நிதி பயன்படுத்தப்படுகிறது.

சங்கிலி தொடர்:


இதுகுறித்து, ஊரக வளர்ச்சித் துறை உயர் அதிகாரி ஒருவர் கூறியதாவது:கிரமங்களில் இருந்த, பாரம்பரிய குளங்கள் பல ஆக்கிரமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. பல குளங்களை, இருந்த சுவடே தெரியாமல் அழித்துவிட்டனர். நீர் வரத்துப் பாதை, நீர் வெளியேற்றுப் பாதைகள் காணாமல் போய்விட்டன. கிராமப் புறங்களின் நீர் ஆதாரமே, இதனால் அழிந்து வருகிறது.இந்நிலையில், பாரம்பரியமாக இருக்கும் குளங்களை மீட்டெடுக்கிறோம். குளங்களில் உள்ள ஆக்கிரமிப்புகளை அகற்றி, தூர்வாரி அவற்றின் உண்மையான கொள்ளளவுக்கு கொண்டு வருகிறோம். இதன் மூலம், குளங்களுக்கு வரும் நீர் வீணாகாமல் தடுப்பதோடு, நீர்பெருக்கால் ஏற்படும் உடைப்புகளும் தடுக்கப்படும். கிராமப்பகுதிகளில், சில குளங்கள் சங்கிலித் தொடர்போல் உள்ளன. ஒரு குளம் நிறைந்து, அடுத்த குளத்துக்கு தண்ணீர் செல்லும் வகையில், குளங்களை அமைத்துள்ளனர். இக்குளங்கள் இப்போது, சங்கிலித் தொடராக இல்லை. அதன் பாதைகளை மறித்து, தீவு குளங்களாக மாற்றிவிட்டனர்.எனவே, சங்கிலித் தொடர் குளங்களை சீரமைக்கிறோம். இதன் மூலம், மழைக் காலங்களில், ஒரு குளம் நிரம்பினால், அடுத்த குளத்திற்கு நீர் தடையின்றி சென்றடையும்; பாசனப் பரப்பும் அதிகரிக்கும்.

கண்காணிப்பு குழு:


குளங்களை தூர்வாரி செப்பனிடுவதோடு நின்று விடாமல், ஆக்கிரமிப்பு செய்யாமல் தடுக்க, கிராம அளவில் கண்காணிப்புக் குழுக்கள் அமைக்கப்படுகிறது. குழுக்களில், கிராம ஊழியர்கள் நியமிக்கப்பட்டு, குளங்களை தொடர்ந்து பராமரித்து பாதுகாக்க, நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும்.
செயற்கைக்கோள் மூலம் படங்கள் எடுக்கப்பட்டு, குளங்கள் குறித்த முழுவிவரங்களும் கணினி மயப்படுத்தப்படும். இத்திட்டப் பணிகள் அனைத்தும், மூன்றாம் நபர் தணிக்கைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்படும்.இவ்வாறு, அவர் கூறினார்.

Newly Constructed Barrages in Tamil Nadu


Barrage II of the Bhavani Kattali Hydro Electric Project at Erode, Tamil Nadu.
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Pallipalayam Barrage in Erode
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pappampalayam barrage in erode
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Barrage cum Bridge at Pasur in Erode
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Sudden flood on Cauvery at Hogenakkal

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Courtesy Karnataka.

Benefits of interlinking rivers listed by Prof A.C. Kamaraj

The National Waterways scheme when taken up is sure to provide a lot of benefits in many fields. Income per year will be Rs. 1,04,000 Crores

Drinking Water : 600 million people will get uninterrupted drinking water supply.
Transport: We will get a very economical Inland waterway Transport (IWT) system. This will greatly reduce the fuel consumption and pollution. Hence waterways will bring down the diesel consumption greatly.
Agriculture: The projects will minimize the flood and drought to a very great extent. We will be able to bring in over 150 Million Acres under additional irrigation, which will triple our agricultural output.
Power: We will be able to generate huge amount of hydroelectric power in the order of about 60000 MW, which can be utilized for the development of Industry for transport, for agriculture and domestic purposes and for many other purposes. Income from power generation will be Rs. 60,000 Crores
Flood Control: The Gangetic Plain and the North Eastern States are affected by the flood during mansoon time. Our Neighbor Bangladesh is also affected terribly. All these flood related problems will be solved and the water is channelised for agriculture, transport and power generation.
Foreign Exchange Savings: Oil Import will be reduced nearly by Rs.1,00,000 crores due to water transport and hydro power generation.
Employment: Enormous Opportunities are generated clearing all unemployment problems.

http://www.nationalwaterways.com/benefits.php

Dinamalar on saving rain water
http://www.dinamalar.com/News_Detail.asp?Id=576272

கடலில் கலக்கும் மழைநீரை தடுப்பதற்கான ஆய்வு மேற்கொள்ள ஏற்படுத்தப்பட்ட தனிக்குழு, ஓராண்டாகியும், ஆய்வறிக்கை சமர்ப்பிக்காததால், பல டி.எம்.சி., மழைநீர் வீணாக கடலில் கலக்கிறது.சென்னை நகரின் குடிநீர் தேவையை சமாளிப்பதில், புதிய வீராணம் திட்டம் முக்கிய பங்கு வகிக்கிறது.

சென்னை மற்றும் புறநகர் பகுதிகளின் எதிர்கால குடிநீர் தேவையை கருத்தில் கொண்டு, புதிய நீர் ஆதாரங்களை உருவாக்க வேண்டியது அவசியம்.ஐந்து டி.எம்.சி., நீரை தேக்கி வைக்கும் நீர் நிலைகளை உருவாக்கினால் மட்டுமே, மழைக்காலத்தில் கிடைக்கும் நீரை சேமிக்க முடியும்.

சென்னை மற்றும் புறநகர் பகுதிகளில் உள்ள ஏரிகளில் ஆக்கிரமிப்புகள் உள்ளன. அவற்றை அகற்றினாலே, 5 டி.எம்.சி., மழைநீரை சேகரிக்க முடியும் என, பொதுப்பணித்துறை அதிகாரிகள் கூறுகின்றனர்.

Following SW failure, NE monsoon failure.. Mettur dam area is heading to drought.

If the level falls below 40 feet, then water supply to Salem dt may be stopped and also power production also will be come to grinding halt.

Bad days ahead...:ohno:

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வரலாறு காணாத வறட்சி:மேட்டூர் அணை நீர் திறப்பு 50 நாட்களுக்கு முன் நிறுத்தம் (http://www.dinamalar.com/News_Detail.asp?Id=593067)

மேட்டூர் அணை கட்டி முடித்து, 77 ஆண்டுகளில், இதுவரை இல்லாத அளவுக்கு நடப்பாண்டு முதல் முறையாக, 50 நாட்களுக்கு முன்பாகவே, பாசன நீர் திறப்பை நிறுத்த வேண்டிய நெருக்கடி நிலை ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது. வரலாறு காணாத இந்த வறட்சி பொதுப்பணித்துறை அதிகாரிகள், விவசாயிகளை கடும் அதிர்ச்சியில் ஆழ்த்தியுள்ளது.

நீதிமன்ற தீர்ப்புப்படி, கர்நாடகா நீர் வழங்காததாலும், டெல்டா பாசனத்துக்கு தொடர்ச்சியாக நீர் திறப்பதாலும், செப்டம்பர், 17ல், 84 அடியாக இருந்த மேட்டூர் அணை நீர்மட்டம், 49 அடியாகவும், 46 டி.எம்.சி.,யாக இருந்த நீர் இருப்பு நேற்று, 17 டி.எம்.சி.,யாகவும் சரிந்து விட்டது. அணையில் இருந்து இன்னும், 63 நாட்கள் பாசனத்துக்கு நீர் திறக்க வேண்டும்.ஆனால், குடிநீருக்கு, 6 டி.எம்.சி.,நீர் இருப்பு வைத்தது போக, மீதமுள்ள, 11 டி.எம்.சி., நீரை இன்னும், பத்து நாட்களுக்கு மட்டுமே திறக்க முடியும்.

இதனால், டெல்டா பாசன நீர் திறப்பை முன்னதாகவே நிறுத்த வேண்டிய இக்கட்டான சூழ்நிலை ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது.வறட்சி பாதித்த 8 ஆண்டுகள்:அணை கட்டி முடித்து, 77 ஆண்டுகளில் நடப்பாண்டுதான் முதல் முறையாக டெல்டா பாசன நீரை, 50 நாட்களுக்கு முன்னதாக நிறுத்த வேண்டிய நிர்பந்தம் ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது. எப்போதும் இல்லாத அளவுக்கு, நடப்பாண்டு வரலாறு காணாத வறட்சி ஏற்பட்டிருக்கிறது.

மேட்டூர் அணை கட்டிய பின், 1935, 1946, 1953, 1968, 1977, 1986, 1996, 2004 ஆண்டுகளில், பத்து ஆண்டுக்கு ஒருமுறை கடும் வறட்சி ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது. வறட்சி பாதித்த ஆண்டுகளில், 1968ம் ஆண்டை தவிர, மற்ற ஆண்டுகளில் டெல்டா பாசனத்துக்கு குறித்தபடி, ஜனவரி, 28ம் தேதி வரை நீர் திறக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.கடந்த, 1935ல் ஜனவரி, 29ல், பாசன நீர் நிறுத்திய போது, மேட்டூர் அணை நீர் இருப்பு, 5.784 டி.எம்.சி.,யாக இருந்தது. இதுவே, 1946 ஜனவரி, 28ல் 1.4 டி.எம்.சி.,யாகவும், 1977 ஜனவரி, 27ல், 3 டி.எம்.சி., நீரும் அணையில் இருந்தது.இந்த நிலையில், மேட்டூர் அணையிலிருந்து, டெல்டா பகுதி பாசனத்துக்கான நீர் திறப்பு, நேற்று மதியம், ஒரு மணி முதல் விநாடிக்கு, பத்து ஆயிரம் கன அடியாக குறைக்கப்பட்டது.

First time in last 30 years, we are not cultivating anything in our land in Trichy... :ohno::ohno:

^^we should also think about the Delta farmers ..poor souls they have their crop in the middle..Bore-well owners can survive , the others if there is no rain - it would cause the crop to die :(

Water level drops the most in TN (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/water-level-drops-the-most-in-tn/article4140480.ece)

Reservoirs level 60% below normal on poor rainfall
Chennai, Nov. 27:

Tamil Nadu has registered the biggest drop in reservoir levels in the Southern region, which is the worst-affected in water storage, according to a CMIE report quoting Central Water Commission’s data.

The reservoir level in Tamil Nadu is 60 per cent below normal as of the week ending November 22. The Commission, in its reservoir level data as of November 22, 2012, said out of the 84 reservoirs monitored by it across India, 53 had more than 80 per cent of normal storage, and 31 less than 80 per cent or below normal storage.

The worst affected was the southern region.

The four southern States recorded less-than-normal storage. Water storage was poor in all six reservoirs in Tamil Nadu. The poorest water storage was recorded at the Parambikulam reservoir. The dam is located in Kerala but is owned and operated by Tamil Nadu. The water level in the dam was 39 per cent of storage at full reservoir level (FRL). This was much lower than the water levels in the preceding year.

By November 22, 2011, water level at the Parambikulam dam was 95 per cent of storage at FRL. The fall in water levels at the same time this year was primarily because of the poor rainfall during the South-West monsoon in Tamil Nadu and Kerala during June-August 2012.

Water levels in the Parambikulam dam had picked up in September 2012 due to outflow from the neighbouring Sholayar dam which overflowed for most part of the month.

However, water levels receded in Parambikulam in October-November.

Reservoir levels in northern States were healthy with all States recording normal to above normal water storage. Punjab fared the best with water levels 54 per cent above normal, followed by Rajasthan with reservoir levels of 33 per cent above normal.

Water released from Vaigai dam to be stopped

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/water-released-from-vaigai-dam-to-be-stopped/article4143998.ece

River Linking Projects (http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=89898)

The Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) (erstwhile Ministry of Irrigation) formulated a National Perspective Plan (NPP) for Water Resources Development in 1980 envisaging inter-basin transfer of water from surplus basins to deficit basins/areas which comprises two components, namely, Himalayan Rivers Development Component and Peninsular Rivers Development Component. National Water Development Agency (NWDA) was set up under the MoWR in 1982 for carrying out various technical studies to establish the feasibility of the proposals of NPP and to give concrete shape to it. NWDA has already identified 14 links under Himalayan Component and 16 links under Peninsular Rivers Component as per Annexure – I.



Five Peninsular links namely (i) Ken – Betwa, (ii) Parbati – Kalisindh – Chambal, (iii) Damanganga – Pinjal, (iv) Par – Tapi – Narmada & (v) Godavari (Polavaram) - Krishna (Vijayawada) have been identified as priority links for taking up their Detailed Project Reports (DPRs). DPR of one priority link namely Ken-Betwa has been completed and was communicated to the party states. Modifications of the proposals and final Detailed Project Report preparation have been taken up by NWDA in light of observations of the concerned states. It has been decided that the DPR of the Project will be prepared in two phases. DPR of one priority link namely Ken-Betwa (Phase-I) has been completed and NWDA has taken up the survey & investigation works of Phase– II of the link project. The Ken-Betwa link project has been included in the list of National Projects.



Further, after receiving the concurrence of the concerned states, NWDA has taken up the DPRs of two more priority links namely Par-Tapi-Narmada & Damanganga-Pinjal. A tripartite MOU for preparation of DPRs of both these links was signed by the Chief Ministers of Gujarat, Maharashtra and the Union Minister for Water Resources on 3.05.2010 in august presence of Hon’ble Prime Minister. The DPRs of these links are under progress.



Efforts are being made to arrive at consensus on the other priority link viz. Parbati – Kalisindh – Chambal through deliberations with the concerned States of Madhya Pradesh & Rajasthan for preparation of DPR.



Another priority link namely Godavari (Polavaram) –Krishna (Vijayawada) is part of the Polavaram project of the Andhra Pradesh. The Government of Andhra Pradesh has taken up the above project including link component as per their own planning.



The preparation of Pre Feasibility/ Feasibility reports of intra-state links proposed by States were included in the functions of NWDA in November, 2006 in consultation with the State Governments. NWDA has requested all the States / UTs to inform the details of intra – state links for further studies by NWDA. So far, NWDA has received 36 proposals of intra-state links from 7 States viz. Maharashtra, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Orissa, Bihar, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. Out of these, Pre-Feasibility Reports (PFRs) of 21 intra-state links have been completed by NWDA up to September, 2012.

On the request of Bihar Government, the preparation of DPRs of 2 intra-state links of Bihar also is in progress. As desired by Govt. of Bihar, NWDA has completed the Preliminary Project Report (PPR) of Burhi Gandak-None-Baya –Ganga link and sent the same to Govt. of Bihar. The preparation of Preliminary Project Report (PPR) of Kosi-Mechi is also completed and sent to Govt. of Bihar.

The details of intra-state link proposals received from the State Governments along with their status and target for completion of their PFRs is given in Annexure – II.



Further 10 proposals (3 from Bihar, 6 from Karnataka & 1 from Chhattisgarh) have also been received. These are being examined for their suitability for further studies.



(b) The initial cost of the Inter Linking projects as per PFR/FR was 5.60 Lakh crore at 2002 Price Level. The costs of individual project have not yet been finalized. The present cost including the cost of land required to be acquired for the project can be estimated only after the completion of DPR of the projects.



(c) The budgetary provision for preparation of Feasibility Reports (FRs) and Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the present financial year 2012-13 is Rs. 51.30 crore. The amount spent on FR & DPR of Interlinking of Rivers programme from inception of NWDA till October, 2012 is `. 378.96 crore. The expenditure incurred, is not maintained project wise.



(d) The river linking project is still in planning stage. Irrigation and hydro power generation will start only after execution of the project.



This information was given by Union Water Resources Minister Shri Harish Rawat in the Rajya Sabha today in reply to a written question on the status of inter-State and intra- State, river linking projects; when this ambitious scheme was envisaged, what was project cost; what is present escalated figure; how much amount has been spent, so far; and whether, till date, neither a hectare area has been irrigated, nor a blade of grass has been grown nor a watt of electricity has been produced under this scheme.

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ANNEXURE-I

STATUS OF WATER TRANSFER LINKS IDENTIFIED FOR PREPARATION OF FEASIBILITY REPORTS (FR) BY NWDA



Peninsular Rivers Development Component



1. Mahanadi (Manibhadra) - Godavari (Dowlaiswaram) link - FR completed

2. Godavari (Polavaram) - Krishna (Vijayawada) link * -FR completed (Taken by the state as per their own proposal)

3. Godavari (Inchampalli) - Krishna ( Pulichintala)link - FR completed

4. Godavari (Inchampalli ) - Krishna (Nagarjunasagar) link - FR completed

5. Krishna (Nagarjunasagar) - Pennar (Somasila ) link - FR completed

6. Krishna (Srisailam) - Pennar link - FR completed

7. Krishna (Almatti) - Pennar link - FR completed

8. Pennar (Somasila) - Cauvery (Grand Anicut) link - FR completed

9. Cauvery (Kattalai) – Vaigai – Gundar link - FR completed

10. Parbati – Kalisindh – Chambal link* - FR completed

11. Damanganga – Pinjal link* - FR com*pleted & DPR started

12. Par – Tapi – Narmada link* - FR completed & DPR started

13. Ken – Betwa link* - DPR (Phase-I) Completed

14. Pamba – Achankovil – Vaippar link - FR completed.

15. Netravati - Hemavati Link - PFR completed

16. Bedti - Varda link - FR work taken up

Himalayan Rivers Development Component

1. Kosi-Mechi link - Entirely lies in Nepal

2. Kosi-Ghaghra link - S&I works taken up

3. Gandak-Ganga link - S&I works completed

4. Ghaghra-Yamuna link - FR completed (for

Indian portion)

5. Sarda-Yamuna link - FR completed (for

Indian portion)

6. Yamuna-Rajasthan link - S&I works completed

7. Rajasthan-Sabarmati link - S&I works completed

8. Chunar(at Ganga)-Sone Barrage link - S&I works completed

9. Sone Dam - Southern Tributaries of Ganga link - S&I works taken up

10. Manas-Sankosh-Tista-Ganga (M-S-T-G) link - S&I works taken up

11. Jogighopa(at Brahmaputra)-Tista-Ganga at Farakka

(Alternate to M-S-T-G) link - S&I works taken up

12. Ganga (Farakka)-Sunderbans link - S&I works completed

13. Ganga-Damodar-Subernarekha link - S&I works completed

14. Subernarekha-Mahanadi link - S&I works completed



* Priority links

PFR- Pre-Feasibility Report; FR- Feasibility Report; DPR- Detailed Project Report

S&I - Survey & Investigation in Indian portion

Karnataka exceeding irrigation area: TN

Tamil Nadu on Tuesday charged Karnataka with irrigating 11.685 lakh acres as against 8.47 lakh acres permitted by the Cauvery Tribunal and depleting the water in the four reservoirs of the State.

Making a submission before a Supreme Court Bench, comprising Justices D.K. Jain and Madan B. Lokur, senior counsel C.S. Vaidyanathan, appearing for Tamil Nadu, said that in 2012-13, the State had received only 23.9 per cent inflow at Billigundlu, which worked out to 73.49 tmcft out of total availability of 307.81 tmcft. The remaining 234.32 tmcft (76.1 per cent) was fully utilised by Karnataka.

Even during 2002-2003, another comparable deficit year, the Tamil Nadu received 39.2 per cent of its share, but this year the attitude of Karnataka seemed to be that whatever water available there belonged to that State and “we will not share it.”

He said notwithstanding the deficit rainfall, Karnataka had not suffered distress and had sown crops on 11.685 lakh acres.

“It has already drawn more than 102 tmcft. (up to November 30) as against about 102 tmcft., which is the average drawal in the four major reservoirs up to the end of November.

“Thus it has not suffered any reduction either in the irrigated area or in the quantity of water. Karnataka cannot claim and seek to retain any water for the rabi crop, when Tamil Nadu could not have even one crop.”

Mr. Vaidyanathan said that while the Tribunal had permitted irrigation only on 8.47 lakh acres, the Centre allowed irrigation on over nine lakh acres and it seemed whatever Karnataka had submitted to them had been accepted.

He argued that while Tamil Nadu was suffering to salvage the samba crop, the claim made by Karnataka either for the second rabi crop or for the crops in new areas was unjustified. Further, the claim of 23 tmcft made by Karnataka for drinking water supply, including the requirement of Bangalore City from December to May, was highly exaggerated and unrealistic as the actual requirement was only 4.4 tmcft.

Senior counsel Anil Divan, appearing for Karnataka, said once the Cauvery River Authority headed by the Prime Minister had passed an order after considering all aspects, including deficit, the present application was not maintainable.

The court should not be carried away by emotional appeal or sympathy since farmers of both the States were involved, and pass ad hoc orders.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/karnataka-exceeding-irrigation-area-tn/article4164719.ece

Govt to approach SC for its water share under a pact with TN

Kerala will approach the Supreme Court to ensure that the state received its due share of water as per the Parambikulam-Aliyar water sharing agreement with Tamil Nadu.

The decision was taken by the state cabinet which met here today, a release from the Chief Minister's Office said.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had stated in the Assembly yesterday that Tamil Nadu had not responded positively to Kerala's request to release its due share of water and made it clear that the state would explore legal options.

According to Kerala Government, getting its due share under the inter-state agreement had become all the more serious with the state facing a severe drought, and paddy cultivation in about 20,000 hectares in Palakkad district was under the threat of destruction, they said.

http://english.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/contentView.do?contentId=13068077&tabId=1&programId=11565535

STATEWISE DETAILS OF CENTRAL ASSISTANCE RELEASED UNDER AIBP in the last 3 years


TN: 0.00 crores :lol:

STATEWISE CENTRAL ASSISTANCE RELEASED UNDER THE COMMAND AREA DEVELOPMENT AND WATER MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME in last 3 years



46.5 crores
15 crores
30 crores

FUND RELEASED TO STATES UNDER REPAIR, RENOVATION AND RESTORATION OF

WATER BODIES (RRR) SCHEMES in past 3 years



0.00 crores

STATEWISE FUNDS RELEASED UNDER CENTRAL SECTOR SCHEME
FOR DEMONSTRATIVEARTIFICIAL RECHARGE TO GROUND WATER last 3 years

3.68 cr
0
1.13 cr

STATEWISE GROUND WATER RESOURCES AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION
(in bcm)


Annual Replenishable Ground Water Resources: 22.94
Annual Ground Water Draft:16.56

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=91036

Project-wise financial assistance (US $ million) from the World Bank in water management sector and its disbursement during the last three years and the current year


Name of the Project : Hydrology Project Phase-II
[Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Orissa, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Pondicherry and Punjab]
External Assistance : 105.51
{IBRD}
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2009-10: 6.77
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2010-11: 11.00
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2011-12: 12.27
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2012-13 : 11.71
(October, 2012)

Name of the Project : Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernization and Water-Bodies Restoration and Management Project (Ln.No.4846-IN & Cr. No.4255-IN)
External Assistance : 485.00
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2009-10: 50.9
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2010-11: 59.61
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2011-12: 42.21
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2012-13 : 29.52
(October, 2012)

Name of the Project : Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project Participating States: Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu & Central Water Commission
(Cr. No. 4787 & Ln. 7943)
External Assistance : 250.00
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2009-10: 0
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2010-11: 0
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2011-12: 0
Disbursement for the Financial Year 2012-13 : 5.44
(October, 2012)

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=91034

தேசிய நீர்வழிச்சாலை திட்டத்தால் ரூ.ஒரு லட்சம் கோடி வருவாய் : திட்ட தலைவர் நம்பிக்கை

சிவகங்கை : ""தேசிய நீர்வழிச்சாலை திட்டத்தால், ஆண்டு தோறும் அரசுக்கு, ஒரு லட்சம் கோடி ரூபாய் வருவாய் கிடைக்கும்,'' என, கங்கா குமரி நீர்வழிச்சாலை திட்டத் தலைவர் காமராஜ் தெரிவித்தார்.

அவர் கூறியதாவது: இமயமலை, மத்திய, தெற்கு நீர்வழிச்சாலைகளாக இத்திட்டம் வரைவு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது. மேற்கில் இருந்து கிழக்காகவும், மத்திய, தெற்கு மாநிலங்களை, கன்னியாகுமரி வரை இணைக்க முடியும். இதன் மூலம், காவிரி நீரை கங்கைக்கும், கங்கை நீரை காவிரிக்கும் கொண்டு செல்ல முடியும். இத்திட்டம், 15 ஆயிரம் கி.மீ., நீளமுள்ளவை. வறட்சியின் பிடியில் உள்ள மாநிலங்களில் கூட, ஒன்பது மாதங்கள் விவசாயம் செய்ய முடியும்; புனல் மின்சார தயாரிப்பு, ஆண்டு முழுவதும் குடிநீர் என, பயன் அதிகம். இத்திட்டம் நிறைவேறினால், நம்நாட்டில் 60 கோடி பேருக்கு, ஆண்டு முழுவதும் குடிநீர் கிடைக்கும்; 15 கோடி ஏக்கர் நிலங்கள் பாசன வசதிபெறும். நாடு முழுதும், 60 ஆயிரம் மெகாவாட் மின்உற்பத்தி செய்யலாம். ஆண்டிற்கு, 1.50 லட்சம் கோடி ரூபாய் எண்ணெய் இறக்குமதி குறையும். கப்பல் போக்குவரத்து, நிலத்தடி நீர் உயர்வு, புதிய காடுகள் உருவாக்கம் மூலம் உலக வெப்பமயமாதல் குறையும். வெள்ளப்பெருக்கு கட்டுப்படுத்தப்பட்டு, 40 ஆயிரம் கோடி ரூபாய்க்கு வெள்ளச் சேதம் தவிர்க்கப்படும். இதனால், ஆண்டிற்கு, ஒரு லட்சம் கோடி வருவாய் கிடைக்கும். மாநிலங்களுக்கு இடையே தண்ணீர் பகிர்வு நடக்கும்.

5 கோடி பேருக்கு குடிநீர்: இத்திட்டம், 900 கி.மீ., நீளமுள்ள சிறந்த நீர்தேக்கம். கங்கா - குமரி தேசிய நீர்வழிச்சாலை திட்டத்தை அடிப்படையாக கொண்டு தீட்டப்பட்டது. தமிழகத்தில் ஆண்டு முழுவதும், 5 கோடி பேருக்கு தங்கு தடையின்றி குடிநீர் கிடைக்கும். கூடுதலாக, 75 லட்சம் ஏக்கர் நிலம் பாசன வசதி பெறும். நீர்மின் உற்பத்தி மூலம், 1800 மெகாவாட் உற்பத்தி கிடைக்கும். நிலத்தடி நீர் உயர்வதால், 1,350 மெகாவாட் மின்சாரம் மிச்சமாகும்.150 லட்சம் பேருக்கு வேலைவாய்ப்பு கிடைக்கும். புதிய காடுகள் உருவாகும். சுற்றுலா வளர்ச்சி பெறும். திட்டத்தை, பிற மாநிலங்கள் ஆதரித்தாலும், ஆந்திரா, கர்நாடகா, கேரளா மாநிலங்கள் எதிர்க்கின்றன. அரசியலுக்கு அப்பாற்பட்டு, இத்திட்டத்தை நிறைவேற்ற வேண்டும், என்றார்.

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கங்கா - குமரி தேசிய நீர்வழிச்சாலை திட்டம்:மதுரையில் செயல்வடிவ மாதிரி திறப்பு

மதுரை : மதுரை நகரியில், கங்கா - குமரி தேசிய நீர் வழிச்சாலை திட்டத்தில், நீர் இருவழிப்பாதையில் செல்லும், புதுமையான தத்துவத்தை விளக்கும் செயல்வடிவ மாதிரி திறக்கப்பட்டது. இத்திட்டத்தின் தலைவர் ஏ.சி.காமராஜ் தலைமை வகித்து பேசியதாவது: நம்நாட்டில் போதுமான நீர்வளம் இருந்தும், சரியாக பயன்படுத்தாததால், வெள்ள நீர், மக்களை அவதிக்குள்ளாக்கி, வீணாய் கடலில் கலக்கிறது. இதற்கு ஒரே தீர்வு நதிகள் இணைப்பு. இத்திட்டத்தினால் தங்கள் மாநிலங்களில் உள்ள தண்ணீர் மற்ற மாநிலங்களுக்கு சென்றுவிடுமோ, என்ற அச்சத்தினால் பல மாநிலங்கள் இத்திட்டத்தை ஏற்க மறுக்கின்றன. இந்நிலையில் தான் நதிகள் இணைப்பிற்கு சிறந்த மாற்று திட்டமாக கங்கா - குமரி தேசிய நீர்வழிச்சாலை திட்டம் வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இது தேசிய நீர்வழிச்சாலைகள் மூலம் பிணைக்கும் திட்டம். தமிழக முதல்வர் "தமிழ்நாடு நவீன நீர்வழிச்சாலை திட்டத்தை' நிறைவேற்றுவதாக ஏற்கனவே தேர்தல் அறிக்கையில் அறிவித்திருந்தார். இத்திட்டத்தில் ஒரு ஆற்றில் அதிக வெள்ளம் வரும் போது, அதை பல ஆறுகளுடன் இணைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள சமதள கால்வாய் வழியாக நீர் செல்லும். அப்போது தண்ணீர் வீணாகாமல் தண்ணீர் இல்லாத ஆறுகளில் தண்ணீர் கிடைக்கும். இத்திட்டம் உலகிலேயே முதல் மாதிரியாக இருக்கும். இதை புரிந்து கொள்ள பலருக்கு சிரமம் இருப்பதால், நகரியில் மாதிரி உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது, என்றார்.செயல் வடிவ மாதிரியை, மடீட்சியா தலைவர் மணிமாறன் திறந்து வைத்து பேசியதாவது:கேரளாவில் கொல்லம் - ஆலப்புழாவிற்கு ரோடு வழியாக பயணித்தால் 3 மணி நேரமாகும். ஆனால் நீர்வழியாக 40 நிமிடங்களில் செல்லலாம். இதுபோல் கேரளாவில் பல நீர்வழிச்சாலைகள் உள்ளன. ஐரோப்பாவில் "டான்யூப்' ஆறு 7 நாடுகளை கடந்து 2,600 கி.மீ., பயணிக்கிறது. அந்நாடுகளில் கூட நதிநீர் பிரச்னை இல்லை. ஆனால் இந்தியாவில் தான் மாநிலங்களுக்குள் நதிநீர் பிரச்னை உள்ளது. இதற்கான ஒரே தீர்வு, தேசிய நீர்வழிச்சாலை அமைப்பது தான், என்றார். முன்னாள் எம்.எல்.ஏ., பாராமலை, சென்னை சில்க்ஸ் நிர்வாக இயக்குனர் ஆறுமுகம், "நவாட்' இயக்க நிர்வாகிகள் மோகன் காந்தி, பாண்டி, மங்கள ஜவகர்லால் மற்றும் பலர் பங்கேற்றனர்.

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PWD readies Rs 11,000Cr-project to restore the Noyyal http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/coimbatore/PWD-readies-Rs-11000Cr-project-to-restore-the-Noyyal/articleshow/18313088.cms

Hogenakkal drinking water project to be ready in March


Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development K.P. Munusamy along with the officials inspected the progress of the Rs. 1,928.80-crore Hogenakkal Drinking Water and Fluorosis Mitigation Project funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Saturday.

A report by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board, a nodal agency for implementing the project says that the project works would be completed before March 31.

When asked about the progress and the possible date of the dedication of the project to the Nation, the Minister said that it would be decided and announced by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.

The project is being implemented under five packages to benefit the population of over 36 lakh people.

The project will benefit three municipalities, seventeen town panchayats and 6,755 hamlets in the two districts.

The water supply would be maintained at 53 litres per person in municipalities, 41 litres in town panchayats and 30 litres in village panchayats, the report said.

According to the report, 81 per cent of the works were over under Package I at the head works on the banks of the Cauvery River in Hogenakkal and rest of the works would be over by February 28.

Under Package II, 90 per cent, and under Package III, 76 per cent works were over. The balance works in these two packages would be over by March 31.

Under package IV, 87 per cent of the works were over and the balance works would be finished before February 28.

Under Package V, 90 per cent of the works were over, and the balance works would be completed before March 31, the report adds.


Altogether, 87 per cent of the project works were over and an amount of Rs. 1,193.24 crore had been spent. It had been targeted to finish the project work before March 31, the report said.

Mr. Munusamy also convened a review meeting with officials in Hosur, to take stock of the progress of the works.

The Minister was accompanied by C.V. Shankar, Secretary, Municipal Administration and Water Supply, C. Ekambaram, Managing Director, TWAD Board and MLAs K.P. Anbazhagan, K.E. Krishnamurthy and Manoranjitham Nagaraj, Dharmapuri District Collector (in charge) P. Ramar and Krishnagiri Collector T.P. Rajesh and District Revenue Officer C. Prakasam.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/hogenakkal-drinking-water-project-to-be-ready-in-march/article4399082.ece

Article on building new Dam in Kallaru Dam.
தென் தமிழகத்தின் குடிநீர் தேவையை பூர்த்தி செய்ய, கல்லாறு அணை குடிநீர் திட்டத்தை தமிழகத்தில் செயல்படுத்த வேண்டும் (http://www.dinamalar.com/news_detail.asp?id=650146)

திருச்சி மாநகராட்சியில் கோடைக்கால குடிநீர்த் தட்டுப்பாட்டை சமாளிக்க ரூ. 3 கோடி அரசிடமிருந்து நிதியுதவி பெற்று தேவையான இடங்களில் ஆழ்துளை கிணறுகள் அமைக்கும் பணிகள் நடைபெற உள்ளதாக மேயர் அ. ஜெயா தெரிவித்தார்.

திருச்சி மாநகராட்சி மைய அலுவலகத்தில் திங்கள்கிழமை நடைபெற்ற மக்கள் குறைகேட்பு நாள் கூட்டத்தின்போது அவர் இதைத் தெரிவித்தார்.

மாநகராட்சியுடன் இணைக்கப்பட்ட புதிய பகுதிகளில் ஒருங்கிணைந்த நகர்ப்புற வளர்ச்சித் திட்டத்தில் ரூ. 18 கோடியில் சாலை மேம்பாடு மற்றும் மழைநீர் வடிகால்கள் கட்டப்பட்டுள்ளதாகவும் அவர் கூறினார்.

இந்தக் கூட்டத்தில் பொதுமக்களிடமிருந்து பெறப்பட்ட 11 கோரிக்கை மனுக்கள் மீது உரிய நடவடிக்கை எடுத்து அது தொடர்பான விவரங்களை மனுதாரர்களுக்கு தெரிவிக்க வேண்டும் என்றும் அதிகாரிகளிடம் மேயர் அறிவுறுத்தினார். துணை மேயர் ம. ஆசிக் மீரா, நகரப் பொறியாளர் எஸ். ராஜா முகம்மது, செயற்பொறியாளர் எஸ். அருணாசலம் உள்ளிட்டோர் உடனிருந்தனர்.

shaikalimmm,
any particular news that benefit only to a particular region, please post that in that thread. above message should go to Trichy topic

RWH scheme to be renewed in the state due to huge dip in the ground water level.
SG has started collecting data about water bodies throughout the state.

மீண்டும் புத்துயிர் பெறுகிறது மழைநீர் சேகரிப்பு திட்டம் (http://www.dinamalar.com/news_detail.asp?id=651556)
தேவதானப்பட்டி: மழைநீர் சேகரிப்பு திட்டத்திற்கு, மீண்டும் புத்துயிர் அளிக்க திட்டமிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதற்காக, ஊராட்சிகளில் பயனற்றதாக உள்ள குடிநீர் கிணறு, அடிகுழாய் விபரங்களை அரசு சேகரித்து வருகிறது.
நிலத்தடி நீர்மட்டத்தை உயர்த்துவதற்காக, 2001ல் அ.தி.மு.க., ஆட்சியில், மழைநீர் சேகரிப்பு திட்டத்தை அரசு செயல்படுத்தியது. இதற்காக வீடுகள், அரசு அலுவலகங்களில் மழைநீர் தொட்டிகள் அமைக்கப்பட்டது. அதன் பிறகு, ஆட்சிக்கு வந்த தி.மு.க., அரசு இதில் ஆர்வம் காட்டவில்லை. இதனால் கட்டப்பட்ட மழைநீர் சேமிப்பு தொட்டிகள், பராமரிப்பு இல்லாமல் போனது. தற்போது பருவமழை பொய்த்துள்ளதால், பல மாவட்டங்களில் நிலத்தடி நீர் மட்டம் 800 அடிக்கும் கீழ் சென்றுள்ளது. இதனால், மீண்டும் இத்திட்டத்திற்கு புத்துயிர் அளிக்க அரசு தயாராகி வருகிறது. இதற்காக ஊராட்சிகள் அளவில், கிராமம் வாரியாக பயனற்ற கிணறுகள், அடிகுழாய்கள் குறித்து கணக்கெடுக்க அரசு உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.

As pat of this scheme, water that is stored in a mega water tank near pennangaram, is split for dharmapuri and Hosur for supply.
As part of this project, pilot run of water supply from Hogenakkal to Hosur tested today and it was success.
chances are there for CM to dedicate this important project to People of TamilNadu on coming Tamil new year Day.
:cheers::cheers:


ஓசூரை தொட்டது காவிரி: ஒகேனக்கல் குடிநீர் திட்ட சோதனை ஓட்டம் வெற்றி (http://www.dinamalar.com/news_detail.asp?id=673407)
ஓசூர்: ஒகேனக்கல் கூட்டு குடிநீர் திட்டம், பரிசோதனை ஓட்டத்தில், காவிரி ஆற்றில் இருந்து, 125 கி.மீ., தொலைவில், 900 அடி உயரத்தில் உள்ள ஓசூருக்கு, தண்ணீர் வந்து சேர்ந்தது. ஒருங்கிணைந்த தர்மபுரி, கிருஷ்ணகிரி மாவட்ட மக்களின், குடிநீர் தேவையை பூர்த்தி செய்யும் வகையில், 1,900 கோடி ரூபாய் மதிப்பீட்டில், ஒகேனக்கல் கூட்டு குடிநீர் திட்டம் துவங்கப்பட்டது. இந்த பணி, மூன்று ஆண்டுகளாக, முழு வீச்சில் நடந்து வந்தது. தற்போது, பணி, இறுதிக் கட்டத்தை அடைந்துள்ளது. இந்த திட்டத்தில், ஒகேனக்கல் காவிரி ஆற்றில் இருந்து எடுக்கப்படும் தண்ணீர், தர்மபுரி மாவட்டம் பென்னாகரம் அருகே, மடத்தில், மெகா தொட்டியில் தேக்கி வைக்கப்பட்டு, அங்கிருந்து, தர்மபுரி, கிருஷ்ணகிரி மாவட்டத்திற்கு, தனித்தனியாக பிரித்து அனுப்பப்பட உள்ளது. அனைத்து பணிகளும் முடிந்த நிலையில், நேற்று இரவு, ஒகேனக்கல் கூட்டு குடிநீர் திட்டத்தில், ஓசூர் நகராட்சி பகுதிக்கு, குடிநீர் பரிசோதனை ஓட்டம் நடந்தது. ஒகேனக்கல் குடிநீர் திட்ட அதிகாரிகள், இந்த பரிசோதனை ஓட்டத்தை கண்காணித்தனர். காவிரி ஆற்றில் இருந்து, 125 கி.மீ, தொலைவில் உள்ள, ஓசூர் நகராட்சிக்கு, ஒகேனக்கல் குடிநீர் வந்து சேர்ந்தது. தேன்கனிக்கோட்டை சாலையில் உள்ள, பம்பிங் ஸ்டேஷன் அருகே, ஒகேனக்கல் தண்ணீர், குழாய்களில் பீறிட்டு வெளியேறியது. தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு அன்று, முதல்வர் ஜெயலலிதா, ஒகேனக்கல் கூட்டு குடிநீர் திட்டத்தை துவக்கி வைக்க இருப்பதாக, தகவல்கள் வெளியாகியுள்ளன.

As pat of this scheme, water that is stored in a mega water tank near pennangaram, is split for dharmapuri and Hosur for supply.
As part of this project, pilot run of water supply from Hogenakkal to Hosur tested today and it was success.
chances are there for CM to dedicate this important project to People of TamilNadu on coming Tamil new year Day.
:cheers::cheers:

ஓசூரை தொட்டது காவிரி: ஒகேனக்கல் குடிநீர் திட்ட சோதனை ஓட்டம் வெற்றி (http://www.dinamalar.com/news_detail.asp?id=673407)


Must thank Stalin for this

* Before 'Petchi n co' comment*

All credit goes to DMK for this project.. Thatha & Stalin rock!
Amma just opening and claiming credit.. Amma sucks!

Damn.. R2IChennai commented b4 my post.. :rant:

வறட்சியால் கற்ற பாடம் டெல்டா மாவட்டங்களில் அமைகிறது "பண்ணை குளங்கள்'

கடந்த இரு ஆண்டுகளாக, காவிரி நீர் பெறுவதில் ஏற்பட்ட சிக்கலைத் தொடர்ந்து, நீரை சேமித்து, நிலத்தடி நீரை மேம்படுத்த, "பண்ணை குளங்கள்' ஒவ்வொரு விவசாயி நிலத்திலும் அமைக்கும் திட்டத்தை, ஊரக வளர்ச்சி மற்றும் பஞ்சாயத்து ராஜ் துறை மேற்கொண்டுள்ளது.கர்நாடக அணைகளிலிருந்து, தமிழகத்துக்கு காவிரி நீர் வருகிறது. கர்நாடகமோ, அணையில் இருக்கும் நீரை, குளங்கள், ஏரிகளில் தேக்கி வைத்து, அணைகளின் நீர்மட்டத்தை எப்போதும் குறைத்தே வைத்துள்ளது. இதனால், அணைகளில் நீர் இல்லை. தமிழகத்துக்கு தண்ணீர் வழங்க முடியாது என, கை விரிப்பதாக, தமிழக அரசும், விவசாயிகளும் குற்றம்சாட்டி வருகின்றனர்.ஏரி, குளங்களில் நீரை தேக்கி வைப்பதன் மூலம், நிலத்தடி நீர் மட்டமும் மேம்படுத்தப்பட்டு, தண்ணீருக்கான பஞ்சத்தை,முற்றிலும், கர்நாடக அரசு குறைத்து வருகிறது.
இந்நிலையில், தமிழகத்துக்கு, காவிரி மூலம் கிடைக்கும் நீர் மற்றும் மழை காலங்களில் பெருக்கெடுக்கும் நீர் ஆகியவற்றை வீணாக்காமல், ஏரி, குளங்களில் தேக்கி வைக்க, தமிழக அரசும் திட்டமிட்டுள்ளது.

நிர்வாக அனுமதிஇதற்காக, திருச்சி, தஞ்சை, திருவாரூர், நாகப்பட்டினம், கரூர், அரியலூர், கடலூர், புதுக்கோட்டை என, எட்டு மாவட்டங்களில், விவசாய நிலங்களில், பண்ணை குளங்களை அமைக்க, திட்டமிடப்பட்டு உள்ளது. முதற்கட்டமாக, ஒவ்வொரு விவசாயிகளின் நிலத்திலும், ஒரு குளம் வீதம், 14,010 குளங்கள் அமைக்க, நிர்வாக அனுமதி வழங்கப்பட்டு, 1,100 குளங்கள் அமைக்கும் பணி நடந்து வருகின்றன.குளங்கள் அமைக்க, ஒரு விவசாயிக்கு அல்லது ஒரு குளத்துக்கு, 1.50 லட்சம் ரூபாய் ஒதுக்கப்படுகிறது. நிலங்களுக்கு ஏற்ப, ஐந்து வடிவங்களில், குளங்கள் அமைக்கப்படுகின்றன. 15 அடி அகலம்,
15 அடி நீளம், 0.75 மீட்டர் ஆழம் என, குளங்கள் அமைக்கப்படுகின்றன. இந்த வடிவமைப்பு நிலத்தின் தன்மைக்கு ஏற்ப, 15 அடி அகலம், 30 அடி நீளம்; 30 அடி அகலம், 30 அடி நீளம்; 15 அடி அகலம், 45 அடி நீளம் என்றும், ஆழம், 2.5 மீட்டர் வரையும், அமைக்கப்படுகின்றன.இதுகுறித்து, ஊரக வளர்ச்சித் துறை உயர் அதிகாரி ஒருவர் கூறியதாவது:தண்ணீர் பற்றாக்குறை காலங்
களில், நீரைப் பயன்படுத்தி கொள்வதற்காக, நீர் சேமிப்பு குளங்களாக, பண்ணை குளங்கள் அமைக்கப்படுகின்றன. உள்ளூர் பகுதியில், நீர் பிடிப்புப் பகுதியை மேம்படுத்துவது திட்டத்தின் முக்கிய நோக்கம்.

நூறு நாள் வேலைதாழ்த்தப்பட்ட பழங்குடியின விவசாயிகள், சிறு, குறு விவசாயிகள் நிலத்தில், பண்ணை குளங்கள் ஏற்படுத்தப்படுகின்றன. நூறு நாள் வேலைத் திட்டத்தில், இப்பணிகள் மேற்கொள்ளப்படுகின்றன. வேளாண்துறை, ஊரக வளர்ச்சித் துறை பொறியாளர்கள் மேற்பார்வையில் பணிகள் நடக்கின்றன.குளங்கள் அமைப்பதற்கான காரணங்களை, எப்படி வேண்டிமானாலும் கூறலாம். ஆனால், மத்திய அரசின் நில மேம்பாட்டு பணிகள் விதிப்படியே, பண்ணை குளங்கள் அமைக்கப்படுகின்றன. 15 ஆயிரம் குளங்கள் அமைக்க திட்டமிடப்பட்டு உள்ளது.இதில், 1,100 குளங்கள் அமைக்கும் பணி நடந்து வருகிறது. படிப்படியாக, திட்டமிடப்பட்ட குளங்கள் அமைக்கும் பணி நிறைவேற்றப்படும்.இவ்வாறு, அவர் கூறினார்.இந்த திட்டத்தை வரவேற்கும், டெல்டா மாவட்ட விவசாயிகள், சிறு, குறு விவசாயிகளை ஒன்றிணைத்து, திட்டத்தின் முழுப்பயனை அவர்களுக்கும் அளிக்க வேண்டும் என்கின்றனர்.இதுகுறித்து, காவிரி விவசாயிகள் சங்க பொதுச்செயலர், மன்னார்குடி ரங்கநாதன் கூறியதாவது:புதுடெல்டா பகுதிகளில், ஏரி, குளங்களை நம்பித் தான் விவசாயம் நடந்தது. மேட்டூர் அணை மூலம், தண்ணீர் கிடைக்க துவங்கியவுடன், ஏரி, குளங்களை விற்றே விட்டனர். இந்நிலையில், பண்ணை குளங்கள் திட்டம் மிகவும் பயனுள்ளது. ஒரு ஏக்கருக்கு ஒரு பண்ணை குளம் என, அமைக்கின்றனர்.ஒரு ஏக்கருக்கும் கீழ் உள்ள விவசாயிகளை இணைந்து, அவர்களுக்கும் பண்ணை குளங்களை அமைத்ததுத் தர வேண்டும். அப்போது தான், டெல்டா மாவட்ட விவசாயிகள், முழுமையான பயனைப் பெறுவர்.இவ்வாறு, ரங்கநாதன் கூறினார்.

Dinamalar

Cauvery-Vaigai River Linking Project -12th Five year Plan

http://imageshack.us/a/img694/5656/cauverigundarlinkling.jpg

www.tn.gov.in/spc/12plan_english/3c_AGRI_and_allied.pdf

actually we should thank amma for not doing what she did to metro and other projects,there is separate thread on this
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=905880&page=4

Thirumanimutharu project may take three more months to complete


http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/01442/sa29_thirumanim_SA_1442747e.jpg
As part of Thirumanimutharu River Improvement Project – Phase II, work is on to strengthen the bunds in Sevvapet in Salem.- PHOTO: E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN


The much delayed Thirumanimutharu River Improvement Project – Phase II, which is into its sixth year, is expected to be completed in another three months.

Though the work resumed in February 2013, after a gap of six months and was expected to be completed by March-end, work was delayed by various reasons. Officials said that under package 2, work is on to strengthen bunds and riverbeds using concrete between Apsara Bridge and Sevvapet for a distance of 645 metres. Under package 3, work would be carried out between Sevvapet and Annathanapatti Bridge for a distance of 795 metres. The Rs. 31.50-crore-project was started in 2007. Once completed, traffic congestion on arterial roads would be reduced and the space along the river would be optimally utilised. The civic body has also proposed to construct multiple parking centres near the river and also provide parks and parking lots along the river.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/thirumanimutharu-project-may-take-three-more-months-to-complete/article4665544.ece

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Murlee...

That is a drainage project.. :lol:

Thirumanimutharu is nothing but main drainage canal of Salem city and drains into Attayampati lake and further transverse through lakes in villages of Namakkal dt before merging with Cauvery border b/w Namakkal and Karur.

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Murlee...

That is a drainage project.. :lol:

Thirumanimutharu is nothing but main drainage canal of Salem city and drains into Attayampati lake and further transverse through lakes in villages of Namakkal dt before merging with Cauvery border b/w Namakkal and Karur.

I studied in Salem ,that time we used to go for movies near old busstand..When I first hear the name of the River as 'Tiru-Mani-Mutharu',I thought they should change this name of the River..Perhaps -
Salethu-Cooum.. :lol:

Jokes Apart, this was one of the healthy river many years back during the rainy days, they used to fish and swim here..But was polluted due to the Indian-City setup..

I studied in Salem ,that time we used to go for movies near old busstand..When I first hear the name of the River as 'Tiru-Mani-Mutharu',I thought they should change this name of the River..Perhaps -
Salethu-Cooum.. :lol:

Jokes Apart, this was one of the healthy river many years back during the rainy days, they used to fish and swim here..But was polluted due to the Indian-City setup..

Yes... even till 1980's the river was good as far as I heard. Due to typical urban culture and slum culture of India the river got spoiled with drainage and garbage.

Adding insult to injury, DMK gvt brought an idea of concreting the river bed in core urban area of Salem for about 4-5KM... 150crores project with the help of world bank.. Now the river is almost dead here and carrying only the drainage.

If we have heavy monsoon, the drainage gets flushed with excess water coming from Yercaud hills. Now for about 10-12KM the river is 100% spoiled.

Adding insult to injury, DMK gvt brought an idea of concreting the river bed in core urban area of Salem for about 4-5KM... 150crores project with the help of world bank.. Now the river is almost dead here and carrying only the drainage.



Hmmm adding concrete was supposed to enhance the flow of water and prevent silting/desilting and prevent the the river width from decreasing thanks to encroachment, but in our case civil engineering has fallen to politics, DMK screwed the river is the final verdict :ohno:

In Gujarat Modi has done this for several 100 kms with solar panels on some places what a visionary he is.

Hmmm adding concrete was supposed to enhance the flow of water and prevent silting/desilting and prevent the the river width from decreasing thanks to encroachment, but in our case civil engineering has fallen to politics, DMK screwed the river is the final verdict :ohno:

In Gujarat Modi has done this for several 100 kms with solar panels on some places what a visionary he is.

Seyoan ji...

then why we have not concreted Koovam river or Cauvery river?

There is a huge difference b/w manmade concrete canal and natural river bed. FYKI, this Thirumanimuthar is a river and not manmade canal.. And even in manmade canal mostly they go for concreting the banks and not the bed!

Encroachment?? After spending 150crores on concrete, now the river is used as garbage yard and encroached by vegetable vendors.

I dragged DMK because they only initiated this project just for swindling the money.. ADMK continued the swindling.. both the party equally benefitted.

And now bushes/trees started to grow on the concrete, with garbages/public toilet in 10yrs the river will be back to old position... so what is the use of spending 150crores on loan from world bank?

Thirumanimutharu project may take three more months to complete


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As part of Thirumanimutharu River Improvement Project – Phase II, work is on to strengthen the bunds in Sevvapet in Salem.- PHOTO: E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN




http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/thirumanimutharu-project-may-take-three-more-months-to-complete/article4665544.ece

There are actually nice machines to lay concrete on banks. Just look at the primitive "baandu" and "dimmis" being used to lay the concrete here. In a few months you will see huge cracks, bushes and trees growing and 150 cr down the drain..

I dragged DMK because they only initiated this project just for swindling the money.. ADMK continued the swindling.. both the party equally benefitted.




Then you should have said TN politicians screwed the river, you initial statement looked very political

Then you should have said TN politicians screwed the river, you initial statement looked very political

Sorry for hurting DMKs sentiment... ;)

yes TN politicans screwed the river...

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/tamil-nadu-kerala-to-share-water/article4663678.ece

THIRUVANATHAPURAM, APRIL 28:
Ministerial-level talks between Kerala and Tamil Nadu on sharing water under the Parambikulam-Aliyar river pact ended here today on a positive note with TN agreeing to release 100 cusecs per day to Kerala.

In response to Tamil Nadu’s gesture, Kerala agreed to release 40 cusecs per day to Tamil Nadu from Siruvani river to Coimbatore.

Briefing newspersons after the meeting which was attended by Tamil Nadu PWD Minister T. Ramalingam, Kerala Water Resources Minister P. J. Joseph said the Joint Water Regulatory Board, consisting of officials from both States, would meet soon to discuss water sharing from Sholayar river.

The meeting was held against the background of Kerala Government’s decision to move Supreme Court to get due share of water from the neighbouring State.

Though not directly related thought of posting it here....

NGO comes up with alternative to inter-linking of rivers (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/infrastructure/ngo-comes-up-with-alternative-to-inter-linking-of-rivers/articleshow/19950734.cms)

Amid growing environmental concerns over the river linking project, an NGO has come up with an "eco-friendly" method to connect the water bodies with grids so that states can share the resources according to their requirements.

"Interlinking of Rivers project (ILR) is not viable in its present form. We have, therefore, come up with a new proposal - National Waterways Project (NWP)," said A C Kamaraj, expert committee member of ILR panel in the present governemnt and Nawad Tech Chairman.

Addressing a seminar 'on Emerging Trends on National Waterways for Water Security and navigation of India', Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan said there is a need to reduce over-dependence on road and rail transport by promoting coastal shipping and inland waterway system.

It is also noteworthy that the government has given prominence to Inland Waterway Transport in the 12th Five Year Plan through higher plan allocation, he said.

Kamraj said yesterday five cases were heard in the Supreme Court on water. All these disputes when we have water more than enough to meet all the requirements of all the people.

"We have developed a working model near Madurai to demonstrate the concept of two-way flow in zero slope canal. An expert team from Canada has visited the model which explains the principle of harvesting only flood water in a river basin, impounds it in the contour canal (Smart Waterway), transmits by differential head V K Gupta, organising secretary, claimed Bihar and Tamil Nadu have accpeted the proposal while Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka "are discussing with us".

Ponraj said Canada and Netherlands have showed interest in the model as there is a minimum assurance of 15 per cent returns every year from the project. The project will also ensure irrigation to an additional 150 million hectares that will double food production to 500 million tonnes, he claimed.

Kamraj has suggested the formation of a 'water grid' by linking all 17 rivers in Tamil Nadu.

"Formation of Tamil Nadu Smart Waterways System would directly generate around 1,800 MW and would improve the water table level, which would save another 1,300 MW," said Kamraj.

Unlike ILR where once water given to another state cannot be drawn back, under NWP there is no problem in sharing water as it is water grid and no state is a giver and every state is a receiver. It is a win-win situation for all, he claimed.

He said the National and state Waterways project could be completed in 10 and 5 years respectively.

Er K Manikandam, member of the engineer panel of the project, said river Godavari generates flood water to the tune of around 2,000 TMC. If properly tapped, the river could provide water to the delta region such as Tiruchi, Thanjavur and Nagapattinam where inflows were low from Cauvery.