Tamil Nadu is under severe drought that requires immediate attention and scared of being accused of failing to take any measure, the government is out of slumber.

Tamil Nadu Co-operatives Minister Sellur Raju had a creative idea of setting afloat sheets of thermocol taped together on the Vaigai dam to prevent the water from evaporating.

Sheets of thermocol worth Rs 10 lakh was used to cover an area of 10 sguare kilometres. The plan was to hire many coracles, take the sheets on it, stick them together with tapes and let it float atop the river. And the plan was okayed by the ministers and two district collectors.