Water bodies are treasures. “The State will embark on a mission for water resource management to restore water bodies and revive k udimaramath through user communities,” he said while presenting the revised budget for 2016-17. : As Tamil Nadu has become a water-deficit state, Finance Minister O. Panneerselvam on Thursday announced the revival of kudimaramath , an ancient system of maintaining and managing water bodies by local communities themselves. 100 crore as an ‘incentive fund’ to revive kudimaramath . Mr. Janakarajan pointed out even though the Kudimaramath Compulsory Act was enacted in 1852, it could not be implemented properly as the Public Works Department (PWD) completely controlled the water bodies.

Source: The Hindu July 22, 2016 00:10 UTC