Soolaimeni irrigation channel restored

Noticing the impact of the clearing of the channel from Sengarai eri (lake), the filling of both the kulams (ponds) at Sivan koil (temple) the people from Soolaimeni also requested that 2 kms of channel also drawn from Sengarai eri be restored. Read about Sivan koil kulam here [Read more]
 
Chandrapuram well cleaned

As part of a plan to clean up water sources and improve the quality of water available to people. A well in Chandrapuram, a hamlet of Mukarampakkam in Tiruvallur District, was cleaned up and is now free of contamination. [Read more]
 
Sivan koil kulam restored

 There are two small ponds (kulams) near Sivan koil (temple) in Keezh Karumanur of Soolaimeni panchayat in Tiruvallur District. The new kulam - (Survey no 272) used to be a percolation lake feeding the ground water table and the surround tubewells used for irrigation. This kulam had silted up in the past few years and its inlet from Sengarai lake - 2 km away had also silted over leading to this adn the neighbouring kulam  completely drying up and in turn drying up the wells. [Read more]
 
130 of 517 applications sanctioned
Formed in July of 2011, the group of 6 village level volunteers have been, among other things, assisting persons with their applications for pensions/subsidies benefits offered by the Central Government and the State Government of Tamil Nadu. 

So far, 517 applications have been submitted. The applications are under the following categories: [Read more]
 
Awareness generation on IAMWARM decentralised

The orientation on the government run Irrigated Agriculture Mechanisation and Water-Bodies Restoration and Management (IAMWARM) project continues with meetings being held at Lachivakkam on 27 July and Kakkavakkam on the 5th August. These meetings were attended by 50 farmers and 205 farmers respectively. Replacing government agricultural officers and representatives from Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Tirur were two farmers Kalidas from Soolaimeni and Pazhani from Mukkarambakkam, both of whom have adopted the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in their own fields. As a consequence of the resources persons being local, the discussion that followed was even more animated and the farmers raised issues on the difficulties they have been facing at work. In summary [Read more]