A new Cauvery Combined Water Supply Scheme at an estimated cost of ₹1,439 crore announced by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay would cover 1,232 rural habitations in Tiruppur district.
The project covers the rural habitations in Dharapuram, Kangeyam, Kundadam, Pongalur and Vellakoil Panchayat Unions, seven Village Panchayats in Mulanur block, and 17 Village Panchayats in Palladam block.
Out of the 2,455 rural habitations in Tiruppur district, the remaining 1,232 habitations are currently receiving drinking water through the Cauvery Combined Water Supply Scheme.
New overhead water tanks will be constructed in the Dharapuram, Mulanur, and Kundadam blocks, and up to 13,000 new drinking water connections will be provided. In Dharapuram municipal limits, an overhead water tank will be constructed and drinking water improvement works will be carried out at an estimated cost of ₹6 crore, District Collector Manish Narnaware said in a press release.
Irrigation channels and canals in the constituency to a cumulative length of about 271 kilometres will be desilted after removing silt deposits, shrubs, and thorny vegetation, in Dharapuram Assembly constituency. Across the district, 159 desilting works will be undertaken in irrigation canals at an estimated cost of ₹10 crore, the press release said.
Additional schemes announced for Dharapuram Assembly constituency constitute distribution of 2,700 free house-site pattas to homeless beneficiaries, sanction of pattas to about 87 families who have been residing for over 20 years in Kuruvappa Nayakkan Palayam hamlet of Chinnaputhur Village in Dharapuram Taluk and establishment of a Fire and Rescue Services Station at Mulanur in Dharapuram Taluk.
The Dharapuram Municipality has also been sanctioned ₹40 lakh for installation of streetlights and ₹6 crore for implementing solid waste management projects and improvements to the storm-water drainage system.
Published - October 23, 2026 08:24 pm IST