The Hon’ble High Court of Madras (Madurai Bench) directed Sivagangai District Administration to desilt and restore water bodies. The District had Farmers Contribution Fund available at District Watershed Development Agency in Sivagangai, which could be utilized for desilting 184 water bodies. But, the Administration went a step ahead and decided to create assets of its own with which it could disilt all 184 water bodies initially and later utilize it for other water bodies like tanks, ooranies, supply channels, rivers as also for eviction of encroachments. The decision to purchase 20 JCBs was a result of this lateral thinking. These JCBs could also be used for removal of prosopis juliflora from farmers’ lands at cheaper rates (only diesel cost to be paid by the interested farmers)... Read More