Basic amenities elude 500 tsunami-affected families in New Nambiyar Nagar

Over 2 decades aft the tsunami, astir 500 families residing successful New Nambiyar Nagar — a rehabilitation colony nether Ivanallur panchayat adjacent Nagapattinam municipality — proceed to unrecorded without basal civic amenities, with residents alleging authoritative apathy contempt repeated representations.

The colony comprises tsunami quarters built for families displaced from the archetypal Nambiyar Nagar sportfishing hamlet. While the lodging task was intended to supply semipermanent security, residents accidental their surviving conditions person steadily deteriorated implicit the years.