NABARD is extending finance under RIDF for these centres
Five integrated agricultural extension centres would be set up in Tiruchi district soon. The centres would serve as a one-stop shop for technical support and input requirements for farmers.
Each of the centres would be set up at a cost of Rs. 1.50 crore with financial assistance sanctioned by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF), according to S. Suresh Kumar, Assistant General Manager, NABARD, Tiruchi. The centres would come up at Manikandam, Tiruverumbur, Vaiyampatti, Thottiyam, and Uppilliyapuram.
According to sources, 100 such extension centres are to be set up across the State. The centres will have facilities for conducting demonstrations, meetings, trainings, field campaigns for implementation of State and central schemes and offices for officials of agriculture, horticulture, seed certification, agricultural engineering, and block-level technical managers.
They would have provisions for scientific storage and mini exhibition hall.
NABARD had extended financial assistance of Rs. 24.69 crore under RIDF for construction of 10 artificial recharge structures at Manikandam, Manachanallur, Lalgudi, Manapparai, Vaiyampatti, Marungapuri, Thuraiyur, Uppilliyapuram, and Musiri taluks, Mr. Suresh Kumar said. He pointed out that NABARD had extended financial assistance of Rs. 61.7 crore for the central vegetable market coming at Kallikudi on the outskirts of the city. The total project cost is Rs. 64.95 crore and NABARD has already released Rs.12.34 crore.
Modernisation of Uyyakondan canal is another major project for which NABARD had extended assistance under RIDF. The bank has sanctioned Rs. 10.92 crore for the project.
The project had been taken up at an estimated cost of about Rs. 11.50 crore for renovating the heavily polluted city stretch of the canal. Apart from removing the silt accumulation, the funds would be utilised for providing bed lining and construction of retaining wall for 1.2 km in the Palakkarai area, where the pollution is at its worst.
NABARD had sanctioned Rs. 8.38 crore for rehabilitation of tanks, anicuts, and supply channels in Musiri, Thottiam, and Thuraiyur.
Mr. Suresh Kumar said since the inception of the RIDF, NABARD had sanctioned Rs. 777.53 crore for over 1,200 projects in Tiruchi district over the past two decades. Of this, the agriculture sector had got the maximum assistance of Rs. 427.36 crore while rural connectivity projects such as roads and bridges were sanctioned Rs. 247.37 crore. Social sector projects such as hostels, health, schools, drinking water, and sanitation were extended Rs. 103.02 crore assistance.
The centres will have facilities for scientific storage and mini exhibition hall
Rs. 24.69 cr. sanctioned for setting up 10 artificial recharge structures
Source : The Hindu
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