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Madurai District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar presided implicit a Gram Sabha gathering successful Thirupparankundram present connected Monday connected the juncture of 77th Republic Day.
The item of the Collector’s code was the rollout of the ‘Ungal Kanava Sollunga’ (Tell Your Dream) initiative. This monolithic door-to-door audit, conducted by volunteers from the Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women, aims to representation the interaction of authorities schemes implicit the past 5 years.
“We are tracking everything—from kid payment and younker employment to acquisition and nutrition,” Mr. Praveen Kumar explained.
The information collected would guarantee that nary eligible household is missed for aboriginal lodging nether the Kalaignar’s Dream Home Scheme, which is entering an expanded signifier pursuing precocious nationalist demand, helium added.
He besides provided a important update connected the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai scheme. He revealed that aft a rigorous secondary screening process nether the ‘Ungaludan Stalin’ program, an further 65,000 women person been added to the rolls. Madurai territory present sees a staggering 5.15 lakh women receiving a monthly entitlement of ₹1,000, providing a important boost to the section agrarian economy.
In a determination emphasising societal harmony, the Collector participated successful a ‘Samuthuva Virundhu’ (Equality Feast) organized by the Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department. Sharing a repast with the villagers, helium addressed pressing section grievances connected the spot:
He pledged that the section Dargah would person a caller extortion wrong a month. Under the ‘Namakku Naame’ scheme, a web of CCTV cameras would beryllium installed done a concern betwixt the territory medication and backstage contributors.
Comprehensive repairs for each colony roads and an overhaul of the drainage strategy were greenlit.
In a monolithic show of antiauthoritarian unity, 15 colony panchayats successful the Kottampatti Union passed identical resolutions during their Republic Day Gram Sabha meetings successful their villages. Through the resolution, they made their demands for fulfilment of the 2021 predetermination committedness to widen the Periyar Irrigation Canal clear.
The residents said, for the residents of Madurai’s bluish border, h2o is not conscionable a resource; it is simply a 50-year-old grievance.
“Despite being a superior cultivation hub, Kottampatti remains astatine the mercy of progressively erratic monsoon rains. The deficiency of irrigation has not lone crippled farming but has led to a burgeoning drinking h2o situation that affects livestock and regular beingness alike,” said Selvaraj, a nonmigratory of Kambur.
“We person been told for decades that the elevation of our onshore makes the canal hold impossible,” said a typical from the Farmers’ Livelihood Movement. “But if h2o tin scope the heights of Kuppam successful Andhra Pradesh from 740 kilo metres away, and if the 58th Canal tin enactment successful our ain district, wherefore is Kottampatti being ignored?”
The DMK’s 2021 manifesto specifically pledged to bring Periyar h2o to this parched union. As the existent authorities enters the second fractional of its term, the ‘unanimous resolutions’ passed contiguous service arsenic a ceremonial reminder of that unkept vow, they said.
The question has present called upon each governmental parties to transcend partisan lines and enactment a method feasibility survey that uses modern engineering to lick the elevation challenge.
