DMK to desilt water bodies, blames government for ‘apathy’

Launching the desilting work at a temple tank in Saidapet constituency represented by party leader and former city mayor Ma Subramanian, he accused the state government of being “apathetic” to the drinking water problems in the state. 

“All the 89 party legislators will take steps to desilt water bodies like lakes and temple tanks so that water could be stored during rains,” Stalin said, adding in other regions where DMK has no MLAs, party functionaries would take up the work with the support of locals. The DMK leader said the ruling regime was only interested in “continuing in the seat of power They are not bothered about people’s problems.”

The ruling regime is only trying to broker peace between the rival AIADMK factions and continue in office, he said. On March 13, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy had inaugurated the ‘Kudimaramathu’ scheme to desilt waterbodies with public, farmers and self help groups’ participation. 

Covering 30 districts, the scheme envisages 1,519 desilting projects at a cost of Rs 100 crore.