Kar Seva
School students participating at a kar seva organised by Siruthuli on Sunday at Nandankarai. About 600 schools students from here planted nearly 200 saplings at Nandankarai where Siruthuli is constructing a check dam. The kar seva programme was organised by Siruthuli, a public initiative here to conserve water bodies, on Sunday. Its Managing Trustee Vanitha Mohan told The Hindu that the aim was to create a bund around the check dam. Nandankarai was about 25 km from the city and the excess water from the natural streams in that part of the Western Ghats was going waste. Siruthuli decided to create a catchment area so that only the excess water would go into the Noyyal river. This would also serve as a waterhole for animals and improve the ground water level.
Work started for the check dam in April. It would be four metres high and 33 metres wide, with a capacity to hold 150 million litres of water. The catchment area was spread across 10 acres. Students from nearly 20 schools in the city and Nandakarai area participated in the kar seva programme along with local tribals and farmers. Siruthuli would plant more saplings, she said. Forest Department organised programmes for World Environment Day and the students removed plastic waste as part of an awareness drive.
