Special Correspondent CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will lay the foundation stone on February 9 for the Rs.369-crore project to interlink the Tamirabarani river with the Karumeniyar and Nambiar, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala told the Assembly on Wednesday. The project envisaged diversion of surplus water of the Tamirabarani to dry areas in Tuticorin and Tirunelveli districts. The Governor said that work on construction of a barrage across the Cauvery at Kattalai at a cost of Rs.165 crore was about to commence. This would mark the first phase of the Cauvery-Gundar interlinking project for taking surplus floodwaters of the Cauvery to water-deficit areas. Calling upon the Centre to provide necessary financial assistance for the projects immediately, Mr. Barnala recalled the Chief Minister