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As water from the Kallanai Dam begins its journey through Tamil Nadu’s delta, locals mark the moment with flowers, rituals, and reverence.

“For survival, our people would literally scale mountains and carry several litres of water over their shoulders. But, things are changing for good now.”

From conducting frequent live sessions on social media pages to arranging volunteers and special forces for rescue operations, here’s all that the state has been doing.

To this day, it has retained not only its name but also the respect it continues to command in the community. Even today, every school kid in Tamil Nadu aspires to make it to its hallowed portals.

Pinki Gogoi and her friend Puja Gogoi used a bamboo raft to rescue up to 30 people left stranded in a flood and bring them to a local evacuation spot set up by her father.

After waiting for 25 years for the government to build a dam in their village, a group of farmers in UP have finally started building the dam themselves.