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As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Cauvery basin, Chennai, has offered to set up Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants in seven drought-hit villages in the district at a total cost of Rs 96.11 lakh.
Collector K. Veera Raghava Rao on Tuesday inaugurated RO plants for SP Pattinam and Kolunthurai at a function at SP Pattinam in the presence of ONGC, Cauvery basin Group General Managers C. V. Sastry and Laxma Reddy and General Manager, ONGC, Karaikal, T. Sai Prasad. Inauguration of the plants coincided with ‘Swachhta fortnight’ being observed by ONGC from July 1 to 15.
The remaining five RO plants to be established in Vennatoor, Pothikulam, Regunathapuram, Kanjirankudi and Landai were under fast track progress and would be commissioned soon, they said. The RO plant project was funded by ONGC and implemented by the district administration through Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute.
