Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP)
Objectives
- ✴ To reduce siltation in multipurpose reservoirs.
- ✴ To prevent land degradation by adoption of soil conservation measures in catchment areas.
- ✴ To reduce soil erosion and to conserve top soil.
Funding Pattern
- ✴ World Bank aided State plan scheme
Benefits offered (Subsidy)
- ✴ Soil Conservation works are carried out with 100 % subsidy.
Project Area
- ✴ Catchment areas of Vaigai dam in Theni district
- ✴ Mettur dam in Salem district
Details of Works
- ✴ Gabion Check Dams
- ✴ Check Dams
- ✴ Stream Bank Protection Walls
- ✴ Silt Monitoring Stations
- Field Bunding with Vegetative measures
Eligibility
- ✴ All farmers of Vaigai and Mettur dam catchment areas in project areas.
Officer to be approached
- ✴ Assistant Executive Engineer (AE)'s in the concerned project districts.
