Farmers vow to protect Kalingarayan Canal from pollution

With the 739-year-old Kalingarayan Canal continuing to be polluted, farmers in the ayacut areas took a vow to protect the canal from pollution besides thanking the canal for serving the farming commun

With the 739-year-old Kalingarayan Canal continuing to be polluted, farmers in the ayacut areas took a vow to protect the canal from pollution besides thanking the canal for serving the farming community in all these years. Members of the Kalingarayan Vaikkal Vivasaigal Mandram organised a deeparathanai vizha at Ganapathipalayam here on Sunday in which Modakkurichi MLA C. Saraswathi took part. The MLA along with farmers left the mulapari pot, that contains nine different types of grains, in the canal and performed puja. Also, a special puja was performed for the canal. Farmers said that the 91.10 km long canal that irrigates 15,743 acres in the district has been serving the farmers for over 700 years and hence thanking Kongu Chieftain Kalingarayan would be appropriate on the occasion. “He had turned the region as greenery”, they said and added that he had disallowed his descendants from using the canal water for irrigation.