Duraimurugan, Minister for Water Resources
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The Tamil Nadu authorities is eager to swiftly full the Cauvery-Vaigai-Gundar river linking project, Minister for Water Resources, Duraimurugan, mentioned within the Legislative Assembly on Saturday.
Refuting concerns expressed by the AIADMK via a name consideration movement within the Assembly that the project had slowed down after the DMK got here to energy, Mr. Duraimurugan mentioned the land acquisition and canal digging work had the truth is been sped up over the previous two years.
Though an allocation of ₹600 crore was made in 2020 in the direction of land acquisition by the earlier AIADMK authorities, solely ₹34.31 crore was spent, and 71.6 acres of land have been acquired, he mentioned. The unspent cash went again to the federal government that 12 months.
In distinction, the current authorities had allotted ₹312 crore prior to now two years and bought 698.97 acres. Moreover, the DMK authorities had made a provision to retain the unspent cash in a deposit for additional use in the direction of land acquisition as a substitute of returning it by the tip of monetary 12 months.
Pointing out that no work occurred in the direction of canal digging in 2020-21 throughout the AIADMK rule, he mentioned the current authorities had allotted ₹177.9 crore prior to now two years and accomplished 64% of the focused work. An additional allocation of ₹554.17 crore in the direction of land acquisition and ₹111.52 crore in the direction of digging a canal had been made for 2023-24, the Minister famous.
Earlier, AIADMK MLA C. Vijayabaskar from Viralimalai constituency, who moved the movement, mentioned that although the project was a dream of many Chief Ministers, it was former Chief Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami who allotted funds and commenced the work.
Quipping that Mr. Vijayabaskar was making an attempt to make it appear as if solely the earlier AIADMK authorities had executed all of the work, Mr. Duraimurugan mentioned the development of the barrage in Mayanur for the project was launched throughout the DMK’s rule in 2009.
CPI (M) MLA M. Chinnadurai, who spoke throughout the movement, appealed to the federal government to expedite the project as it might profit farmers in seven districts of the State.
