Adopt Pondy’s model to avert water crisis: L-G

Amid the water scarcity in neighbouring Tamil Nadu, Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on Tuesday said the Union Territory’s efforts in the area were worthy of ‘replication.’

By :  migrator
Update: 2019-06-18 20:22 GMT
Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi

Puducherry

In a message to the media, she recalled that “efforts were put in place by a collaborative effort to prevent water crisis” in the recent past.


The former IPS officer said there could be more efforts which involved no cost to the government exchequer this monsoon itself.


Bedi was instrumental in getting a number of educational institutions and voluntary organisations to take up desilting of water bodies in the union territory.


“This is a model worthy of replication to keep water crisis at bay,” the Lieutenant Governor added.

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