TN government publication captures history of Cauvery delta
The Hindu
A coffee-table book, brought out recently by the Water Resources Department, gives an account of a British engineer’s reference to the Grand Anicut
Nearly 190 years ago, Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton (1803-1899), a celebrated British irrigation engineer, called the idea of building an anicut across the Cauvery “visionary.” At that time, he was toying with the proposal of building, what is now called the Upper Anicut at Mukkombu, about 18 km from Tiruchi, after studying the Grand Anicut or ‘Kallanai'’ in Tamil, which was said to have been built by Karikala Chola in the second century CE. In an account, he made a reference to the Grand Anicut by saying how it was done by “the natives hundreds of years ago” and “with their little science and poor means.”The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.