DINDIGUL: Aiming to offer power connection to farmers, state government with the support of the union government initiated the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme in Dindigul and around Rs 333.84 crore was allocated for the 2024-25. According to official records, a total of 162 major works for carrying out 168 feeder lines projects in all taluks of the district were planned. …
A tribal hamlet on the fringes of Hediyala range of Bandipur Tiger Reserve without electricity for generations recently got connected to the power grid of Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation. What is intriguing is that villages close to the hamlet had power connection but a portion of the tribal hamlet of the Jenu Kuruba community at Kothnahalli Colony was left out …
After several decades of waiting, Erumaparai tribal settlement near Top Slip will soon become the first tribal settlement in the Pollachi Forest Division of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve to get power connection. According to ATR authorities, various formalities have been completed and 34 Kadar tribal families are expected to get power connection within a month. He said that the Tangedco …
An overhead water tank and a motor room that were constructed 17 years ago at Ramaranai tribal settlement in Talamalai Panchayat were lying idle in all these years as the settlement is yet to get power connection. People said that they had deposited money for electricity connection in 2003, but later, the electricity board had returned their money claiming that …
