This was not the right time to commission the Athikadavu-Avinashi Groundwater Recharge Scheme, due to poor water storage, said T.N. Housing and Urban Development Minister S. Muthusamy, in Coimbatore, on Tuesday, February 6, 2024.
The ₹1624.82crore scheme is aimed at providing water for the cultivation of 24,468 acres of in Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Erode districts.
The Minister said that water flow was not adequate in the reservoir. The project has six motors, he explained, and said that at least four motors needed to be operational in order to fill in the 1,045 water tanks that are part of the scheme. However, the water available at present was not enough to run even three motors. CM M.K. Stalin, he added, was keen that the benefits of the scheme reach all the the farmers, but he did not want to commission the project “for name’s sake.”
