The Public Works Department (PWD) has taken away a lion’s share of the Rs.1.25 crore sanctioned for the district as temporary restoration for flood damage to cover the damages caused by rain in the month of December.
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All the same, a sum of Rs.10.90 lakh has been made available to the cooperative societies in Karur, Krishnarayapuram and Kulithalai taluks to meet the crop loss of farmers, but that is hardly the amount the farmers are demanding as damages to their crops. It is interesting to note that while the district recorded an average rainfall of 652.2 mm for the whole of 2007, rainfall in the month of December alone touched 214.7 mm.
While the PWD (River Conservation Division) walked away with Rs.50 lakh to meet the cost of plugging breaches in the irrigation and drainage channels in the Kulithalai and Krishnarayapuram taluks of the district, the PWD Ariyaru Division has been sanctioned Rs.21 lakh for works including setting right irrigation systems disturbed in the rain’s fury. The PWD Nankanjiyaru Division, under which a reservoir in the neighbouring Dindigul district suffered damages and water was allowed to drain off the dam, gets Rs. 10 lakh for meeting repair works’ cost.
After apportioning close to half the sanctioned amount to the PWD divisions, the State Government has allotted Rs.16 lakh to the
The Uppidamangalam and Krishnarayapuram Town Panchayats get Rs.11.5 lakh while the Revenue Department has been sanctioned Rs.5.60 lakh. The Revenue Department would disburse the compensation for the families residing in 268 partially damaged houses and 64 fully damaged houses in the district.
The farmers’ cooperative societies in Karur taluk have been sanctioned Rs.1.34 lakh, while those in Krishnarayapuram taluk get Rs.1.54 lakh. Societies in Kulithalai taluk have been sanctioned Rs.8.02 lakh for meeting the crop loss of farmers in the respective regions.
