Chennai: PMK’s chief ministerial candidate Dr Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday announced that if his party was voted to power he would allocate Rs 50,000 crore for water management programme across the state.
“We have enough water but we are wasting by letting it to drain into sea. We have to create infrastructure like check dams across the river to save the water and divert the excess water into the water bodies,” Mr Anbumani said while addressing “Your Native, Your Anbumani” campaign here in Tiruvallur district.
Pointing to the recent rains when 12,000 million cubic tmc feet of flood water in Kosathalaiyar in Tiruvallur was let into the sea, PMK leader said flood water could have been saved if the state government had properly planned and build check dams and storage facilities.
“The Kosathalaiyar, Adyar and Cooum river together had a storage capacity of eight tmc ft but over the period due to lack of maintenance it had come down by 50 per cent,” he said, noting that though the district has three major water tanks – Poondi, Red Hills and Sholavaram, there is no enough water for the agriculture. PMK leader also promised to open a government medical college in the district along with a hospital. “We will open medical colleges in all the districts. There are 15 districts in the state without medial college,” he said, adding that in this campaign, he had heard the issues faced by people across all the district except Chennai.
“We are not like other parties who raise only the issue. We are different from them and we provide solutions for the issues,” he said. Dr Anbumani said that if his party were voted to power, his first step would be to implement prohibition.
“We will also implement Lokayuktha to bring an end to widespread corruption prevalent in the state,” he said, adding that his party was for progressive and development politics not in favour of empty rhetoric.
