Cleaning of Tamirabharani to begin tomorrow
The Hindu
TIRUNELVELI
TIRUNELVELI
The district administration is all set to launch a programme from April 23 to clean the Tamirabharani and remove encroachments along the river course.
Though the river had been cleaned on various occasions, the latest drive will be started in the upstream and then coming down.
The initiative, ‘Thooya Porunai; Nellaikku Perumai’ (‘Pure Tamirabharani; Pride of Tirunelveli’), is organised as an integral part of the ongoing ‘Nellai Neervalam’ (Tirunelveli Water Resources) activities, which was launched recently to clean the water bodies in the district to improve irrigation and groundwater table.
Moreover, the need for conserving the Tamirabharani that gave birth to ancient civilization at Aditchanallur, Sivakali, Korkkai etc. was highlighted during the recently held ‘Porunai Nellai Book Fair’ also, which elicited rousing response from the public, especially from the school and the college students.
“The objective behind conserving this sacred river is to improve the water quality of Tamirabharani substantially from current ‘bathing quality’ to ‘drinking quality’ through scientific interventions and citizens’ sustained and active participation. Hence, there will be no compromise in checking the hitherto uncontrolled flow of domestic and industrial sewage into the river anymore,” District Collector V. Vishnu, who is spearheading this initiative, told ‘The Hindu’.
Besides cleaning the banks of the river and liberating it from encroachments, the discharge of domestic and industrial effluents into the river from Papanasam to Marudhur check-dam (for about 62 Km) - will be completely stopped.