Centre's grant is peanuts for reviving water bodies: Pondy CM

Chief Minister V Narayanasamy Monday charged the Centre with sanctioning a very poor grant which, he said, was peanuts to take up rejuvenation and development of water bodies in Puducherry and Karaikal regions.

Tabling a resolution during the special session of the assembly and highlighting the steps taken by the territorial government for conservation of drinking water and for harvesting rainwater, he said the government had sought Rs 2,719 crore for the improvement of the tanks and lakes in the regions and got only Rs 2 crore.

"The Centre has only earmarked Rs 2 crore in response to our presentation of the estimates', he said adding that this is peanuts and would be insufficient to take up the work," he said.

Although the union territory did not face any alarming situation on the water front, the future could not be taken for grant, hence all preventive steps for judicious use of water were being implemented here, Narayanasamy said.

Earlier, all the legislators ...