<span style="color: #222222;">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edapadi Palanisamy has announced that the Tamraparni – Karumeni-Nampiyaru river linkage scheme Southern Tamilnadu will be implemented this year itself. The Chief Minister further announced that a 52.46 crore rupees sea erosion prevention scheme will be operationalised in Alantharai and that a ten crore drinking water scheme will be started in Thuthukudi district.<br />''         <br />''He was inaugurating the Dr Sivanthi Adithanar memorial, built at a cost of one crore 34 lakhs rupees at Veerapandya Pattinam near Tiruchendoor in Thoothukudi district.<br />''           <br />''Dr Sivanthi Adithyan was the Chief Editor of the prominent Tamil daily Dina Thanthi and an avid philanthropist. He had been honored with the Padmasri in 2008.</span><br />