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Kerala: 700 villagers clean River Kuttemperoor, give it a new lease of life in 70 days - India Today

Know how 700 MGNREGA workers gave Kerala's Kuttemperoor river a new lease of life in just 70 days. 

The Kuttemperoor river is a small tributary of the Pamba and Achankovil rivers. For the last decade or so it was nothing more than an almost dead cesspool of pollutants and weeds.
Once this almost 12 km long river was 100 feet wide and between 5 to 12 feet deep. Illegal mining of sand along the river bed, dumping of waste and water weeds had effectively killed off the river by 2005. At its prime it has served as the prime source for irrigation and for all non-drinking water utilities of the villagers in the Budhanoor Gram Panchayat's region in Alappuzha district.

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