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No work: Coracles in Ammapettai have been off the river for the last week, thanks to excess flow of water. –
BHAVANI: In Ammapettai, about 25 km north of Bhavani, on the bank of River Cauvery, fishermen, sitting beneath a tree, gaze at the river on a languid afternoon. Their tar-coated coracles rest behind them, as if sunbathing after being in water for long. The coracles have remained in the same position – idle – for the last 10 days and so have the fishermen who gathered in the later forenoons to do nothing but look at Cauvery and wonder when her waters will recede. The Cauvery-in-spate condition has forced them off work. “We have been without work for the last 10 days,” laments V. Krishnan, president of the Ammapettai Meenavar Kooturavu Sangam, a local fishermen’s cooperative society. The fishermen’s problem is the alternating marginal increase and decrease of water in the river. “During evenings the water increases and by day it reduces marginally only to rise again. This has been the condition in the last 10 days,” he rues. In the alternating increase and decrease lies fishermen’s problems. They throw net in the evenings to collect the catch only the next morning. And when the water increases in the evenings the catch is washed away from the net. That apart, using a coracle has also been difficult. Given the undulating terrain and sharp fall of water in a couple of places, the fishermen have not ventured into the river. On normal days, Cauvery helps them earn about Rs. 75 a day. In the last 10 days, though, there is nothing the river has given them but worries, Mr. Krishnan rues. A few yards away from where the fishermen sit to chit-chat is a house that has been damaged in the recent floods. The fishermen say the occupants have moved to a relative’s house in the same locality. One of the four walls has been damaged completely. Municipal officials say they will soon write to the district administration about the damaged house and help the occupants claim compensation. In Nerinjipettai, further upstream Cauvery, the ferry service linking the village and another on the other bank of Cauvery district is stopped. Nerinjipettai Town Panchayat officials say the service was stopped about 10 days ago following floods. It is yet to resume. Here too a few fishermen have been affected.
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