TIRUCHY: Demanding crop damage compensation of Rs 40,000 per acre, farmers staged a protest at Cauvery bridge in Tiruchy on Wednesday.

The farmers led by P Ayyakannu, the state president of Desiya Thenindhiya Nadhigal Inaippu Vivasayigal Sangam, who assembled at the Cauvery bridge, stated that around 2,000 cusecs of water released from Mettur was flowing waste into the sea.

Linking Cauvery and Ayyaru would enhance water supply in around 1,000 water bodies in Salem, Namakkal, Tiruchy, Perambalur and Ariyalur and irrigation on lands across these areas, they said, adding that it would also recharge the groundwater table. However, both the State and Centre pay no heed to the requests of the farmers, the protesting farmers said.

“We have been insisting that the state government construct a

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