DRDA Project Director holds special consultative meeting Local bodies should achieve cent per cent in construction of rainwater harvesting structures and drainage water collection pits in every house to improve groundwater table and keep surroundings at villages clean. The panchayats should complete all development works that were undertaken during 2011-12 on or before July 31, 2012, said District Rural Development Agency Project Director P.R.K. Ramesh. He was presiding over a special consultative meeting with panchayat presidents here on Monday. The Central and the State Governments had offered Rs.4,500 each plus public contribution of Rs.900 for construction of rainwater harvesting structures and pits for collection of drainage water. Panchayats should take all-out efforts to achieve cent per cent results in this connection. Drainage pits in every house would prevent flow of sewage water on streets. Otherwise, it would pose a grave threat to health of public, he pointed out. About 619 out of total 2,152 green houses allotted to Dindigul district in the first phase were ready for occupation and 1,153 houses were at finishing stage. These houses should be completed within time. Speedy completion would help panchayats start construction of next batch of houses, he said. Moreover, the district rural development agency had taken up 52 villages for implementation of various development works in 52 pancahyats under Tamil Nadu Village Habitations Improvement Scheme to provide road connectivity, drinking water, streetlights, road to burial ground and other basic amenities, the project director noted. Presidents of panchayats, union secretaries and development officials took part in the meeting.