Tirupur: Farmers from Velampatti space have come out towards the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for destroying an irrigation pond on Avinashipalayam-Avinashi Road to build a toll gate close to Palladam.
NHAI have been accomplishing work for the Avinashipalayam-Avinashi Road that would attach Salem-Coimbatore and Trichy-Coimbatore nationwide highways at a value of Rs 167 crore. For establishing a toll gate in Velampatti in North Avinashipalayam panchayat, NHAI government filled 70% of the tank with soil, native farmers stated.
“The pond used to be the primary water source for irrigation in addition to consuming in Velampatti and surrounding villages. More than 100 acres of agricultural lands have been depending on it without delay and not directly. We had desilted it spending Rs 10 lakh and it used to be receiving water from the Parambikulam-Aliyar mission irrigation scheme,” former CPI ward councillor of Thonguttipatti panchayat E Jothi Basu instructed TOI.
“It is unlucky that while there were ways to build the toll gate with out anxious the irrigation tank, NHAI didn't bother about it,” he added.
K Sathish, a neighborhood farmer, asked NHAI not to arrange the toll gate at the highway as it could have an effect on native farmers. “Hundreds of farmers use the road to transport their produces to the Tirupur farmers’ market. They shall be pressured to pay toll for transportation vegetables,” he added.
NHAI have been accomplishing work for the Avinashipalayam-Avinashi Road that would attach Salem-Coimbatore and Trichy-Coimbatore nationwide highways at a value of Rs 167 crore. For establishing a toll gate in Velampatti in North Avinashipalayam panchayat, NHAI government filled 70% of the tank with soil, native farmers stated.
“The pond used to be the primary water source for irrigation in addition to consuming in Velampatti and surrounding villages. More than 100 acres of agricultural lands have been depending on it without delay and not directly. We had desilted it spending Rs 10 lakh and it used to be receiving water from the Parambikulam-Aliyar mission irrigation scheme,” former CPI ward councillor of Thonguttipatti panchayat E Jothi Basu instructed TOI.
“It is unlucky that while there were ways to build the toll gate with out anxious the irrigation tank, NHAI didn't bother about it,” he added.
K Sathish, a neighborhood farmer, asked NHAI not to arrange the toll gate at the highway as it could have an effect on native farmers. “Hundreds of farmers use the road to transport their produces to the Tirupur farmers’ market. They shall be pressured to pay toll for transportation vegetables,” he added.
Farmers flay NHAI for destroying irrigation pond
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