Tamil Nadu election 2026: In Palacode constituency, two-cornered contest on the cards

A rain-fed agrarian landscape, with agriculture as mainstay; and yet no irrigation/water harvesting schemes to sustain that agriculture on the one hand, and no trace of nascent industry on the other has left Palacode constituency in a limbo.

For Palacode’s agrarian constituents with marginal landholdings, two long-standing demands for irrigation schemes that would harvest run-off from river Thenpennai in Krishnagiri and channel it to the water bodies of Palacode, would help reclaim agriculture. The first one - Ennekolputhur project announced but still in works envisions channeling of the waters of river Thenpennai to Thumbalahalli dam in Palacode; while the second project if taken up will channel Thenpennai water from Aliyalam checkdam to Thoolsetti lake in Palacode. The Palacode Sugar Cooperative Society, a once a flourishing mill for over 25 years was shutdown due to fall in sugarcane production, for lack of water.