Villagers clear canal as authorities look different manner in Odisha

By Express News Service

MALKANGIRI: With irrigation authorities reportedly not paying heed to their requests to scrub the Potteru major canal, farmers of Mandapalli, Chitrangpalli and Badli panchayats in Kalimela block picked up shovels and did what was required to revive the mud-filled waterway and be sure that water reaches their agriculture fields forward of the rabi season.

Hundreds of farmers from 10 villages assembled close to the canal at MV-54 with spades, shovels and different instruments and cleaned the complete stretch of the waterway passing by way of the three panchayats. The villagers even employed an excavator to scrub the canal stretch which had a heavy deposition of silt. For this, they collected funds from every family within the three panchayats.

After toiling for the complete day, the villagers managed to scrub the canal. Happiness writ massive on their faces as water gushed in direction of the tail finish of the panchayats. Pabitra Das of MV-54 mentioned villagers took the matter into their very own palms as they had been already reeling below deficit rainfall.

“We cleaned the canal to prepare our agriculture fields for the upcoming rabi crop,” he mentioned.

Muka Kabasi, a farmer of Badli panchayat, mentioned villagers had drawn the eye of Potteru irrigation authorities in direction of the situation of the canal which was crammed with mud and silt.

“Due to silting of the canal, water failed to reach around 500 hectare of farmland in the three panchayats. However, the authorities did not pay any heed to our pleas,” he claimed.

Contacted, Balimela-based superintending engineer of Potteru Irrigation Division Abhiram Beuria mentioned he was not conscious of the silting of the waterway. “Nobody introduced this to my discover.

The rains led to the buildup of sediments within the 58-km-long stretch of Tamasa canal, a department of Potteru major canal. Our engineers visited the location on the day and cost will likely be made to the farmers who cleaned the canal stretch,” Beuria added.

MALKANGIRI: With irrigation authorities reportedly not paying heed to their requests to scrub the Potteru major canal, farmers of Mandapalli, Chitrangpalli and Badli panchayats in Kalimela block picked up shovels and did what was required to revive the mud-filled waterway and be sure that water reaches their agriculture fields forward of the rabi season.

Hundreds of farmers from 10 villages assembled close to the canal at MV-54 with spades, shovels and different instruments and cleaned the complete stretch of the waterway passing by way of the three panchayats. The villagers even employed an excavator to scrub the canal stretch which had a heavy deposition of silt. For this, they collected funds from every family within the three panchayats.

After toiling for the complete day, the villagers managed to scrub the canal. Happiness writ massive on their faces as water gushed in direction of the tail finish of the panchayats. Pabitra Das of MV-54 mentioned villagers took the matter into their very own palms as they had been already reeling below deficit rainfall.

“We cleaned the canal to prepare our agriculture fields for the upcoming rabi crop,” he mentioned.

Muka Kabasi, a farmer of Badli panchayat, mentioned villagers had drawn the eye of Potteru irrigation authorities in direction of the situation of the canal which was crammed with mud and silt.

“Due to silting of the canal, water failed to reach around 500 hectare of farmland in the three panchayats. However, the authorities did not pay any heed to our pleas,” he claimed.

Contacted, Balimela-based superintending engineer of Potteru Irrigation Division Abhiram Beuria mentioned he was not conscious of the silting of the waterway. “Nobody introduced this to my discover.

The rains led to the buildup of sediments within the 58-km-long stretch of Tamasa canal, a department of Potteru major canal. Our engineers visited the location on the day and cost will likely be made to the farmers who cleaned the canal stretch,” Beuria added.