HC closes plea by TN assembly Speaker to clean high-level water supply channel in Tirunelveli
Madurai: The state govt informed the
Madras high court
that the work of cleaning the high-level water supply channel formed between Alanthurai aaru and Suravali odai anai, situated in the reserve forest area in the Western Ghats in Radhapuram taluk in
Tirunelveli
district, has been completed. Following this, the court recently closed a plea filed in 2019 by M Appavu (presently
Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker
).
The petitioner stated that the Western Ghats is the birthplace of many small rivers, and one of these rivers is Kalisamban odai, which reaches Alanthurai aaru. He stated that Alanthurai flows through Kanyakumari district.
Most of the perennial water was used by the people of Kanyakumari district for agricultural purposes, a scheme was formulated by the state govt in 1969 for the usage of water from Kalisamban. A small dam was constructed at Alanthurai with the objective to distribute water 60% to Tirunelveli and 40% to Kanyakumari districts, respectively.
He stated that later, a high-level supply channel was formed between Alanthurai and Suravali, through which water would flow to eight ponds in Kavalkinaru village and 48 ponds in Panagudi village, benefiting nearly 2,000 acres of agricultural land in Tirunelveli district. The high-level water channel was filled with stones and boulders, preventing the free flow of water. Hence, he moved the court seeking a direction to the authorities to clean the channel.
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A division bench of justice G R Swaminathan and justice B Pugalendhi took note of the status report filed by the authorities in Nov 2019, stating that the works were already successfully completed. The court was of the view that nothing survives for further adjudication, the judges observed, and closed the petition.
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