Governor Banwarilal Purohit briefs 4 ministers of conditions in Kanyakumari
Chennai: Continuing his pro-active measures to help the people of Tamil Nadu, Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Tuesday met four senior Union ministers, separately, at New Delhi and sought help in various areas such as relief measures in Kanyakumari district hit by Cyclone Ockhi and stepping up naval deployment to trace the missing fishermen.
Briefing Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the conditions prevailing in Kanyakumari district based on the information he had gathered during his visit to the cyclone ravaged district on Dec. 7, Mr. Banwarilal sought assistance under cyclone relief measures.
The Governor who had a busy schedule in the national capital on Dec. 11 and 12, also called on Union Road Transport, Highways, Shipping and Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkar at his residence and discussed about the prospects for early interlinking of peninsular rivers so as to augment the water resources in Tamil Nadu. Mr. Purohit specifically highlighted the drinking water needs of the State and as to how a large number of farmers who cultivate unirrigated crops will benefit if they could get the water for irrigating atleast one crop per year. For this, he stressed the need for linking of rivers of Tamil Nadu with those rivers whose surplus water flows waste into the sea.
Assuring him that unutilised surplus waters would be diverted to meet the needs of the people of Tamil Nadu, Mr. Gadkari promised the Governor that not a single person in TN would suffer on account of lack of drinking water.
Earlier on Monday, the Governor participated in the meeting of the committee of Governors constituted in October 2017 for recommending best practices to be undertaken by various Raj Bhavans.
