CHENNAI: Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the Godavari- Cauvery river linking project as a National Project so as to benefit lakhs of people in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
Addressing the sixth governing council meeting of NITI Aayog, he said river
Cauvery and its tributaries had to be rejuvenated on the lines of “Namami
Gange” and requested the Centre to accord sanction and extend financial assistance to the State at the earliest.
“We are meeting after a year, during which period the world has been struck
by the most extensive pandemic we have seen. A series of timely and effective
measures taken in Tamil Nadu by calibrated relaxations, effective RT/PCR testing, tracking and conduct of fever camps have ensured total control of the spread of Covid in our State,” he said.
He said the State had been ranked Number One in the Good Governance Index released by the Government of India and had bagged…