Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cancel the Centre’s invitation for bid to extract hydrocarbon in Tamil Nadu’s Cauvery basin and strongly opposed such initiatives in the state.
The Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has invited bids for development of oil and gas fields at Vadatheru in Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu, he said in a letter to Modi.
This area falls under the Cauvery basin, a Protected Agricultural Zone (PAZ) and the bedrock of Tamil Nadu’s food security and agro-based economy from time immemorial and this ecologically fragile zone supports the livelihood of millions of farmers and farm workers, he said.
