The LTTE terrorists closed the Mavil Aru irrigation canal causing damage to the sluice gate and other places along the waterway.

Mavil Aru embankments and spillway has been repaired up to 1,000 feet under this project, he said.

More than 10,000 farmer families living along the banks of the Alla-Kantalai irrigation scheme will benefit from these repairs.17,413 acres of paddy lands that were not used during the times of the terrorist war could also be brought under the plough, quoting the Project Director Daily News reported.

The Nation Building Ministry had already spent around Rs 76 million to build five bridges, two canals 7.5 kilometres and 16.5 kilometres long, and for renovations of the whole irrigation scheme.