Helping out farmers: Collector V. Amuthavalli at a grievance meeting in Cuddalore on Friday.
CUDDALORE:
Farmers have urged Collector V. Amuthavalli to take steps to fill engineering posts lying vacant in Public Works Department. A plea was made at a grievance day meeting held here on Friday.
At a time when water was set to be released for irrigation through canals stretching for hundreds of kilometers in the district, the vacancies would affect the efficient functioning of the PWD in regulating supply. It was also pointed out that even though the Neyveli Lignite Corporation had allotted a sum of Rs. 25 crore for desilting the Wallajah tank, the works were yet to begin. It was stated that fertilizer shortage and faulty transformers affecting power supply to the farms were also affecting agricultural production.
In certain places, defective transformers were replaced by farmers at their own expenses and, in such cases the district administration should make arrangement for reimbursement. There was undue delay in processing seeds in the seed treatment plant located at Vriddhachalam, which, in turn, affected the cash flow of seed suppliers (farmers). It was alleged that the seeds obtained from government depots were sub-standard and did not sprout.
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