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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded that a span constructed connected the Narangadavu River to payment Adivasi communities beryllium expanded.
In a statement, Rasi Ravikumar, The Nilgiris territory committee subordinate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said the span was built to work much than 500 households belonging to Paniya and Kattunayakan communities successful Puliyampara adjacent Pandalur.
He said that section residents had demanded a span crossed the Narangadavu River which floods each twelvemonth during the monsoon. “During the 2021 predetermination campaign, accepting a petition made by a student, the contiguous Chief Minister M.K. Stalin assured that the span volition beryllium constructed wrong 100 days of forming the government. To fulfill this promise, ₹30 lakh was sanctioned nether the SADP scheme, and operation enactment for a factual span was initiated done the Nelliyalam Municipality,” helium stated.
He alleged that the Forest Department had stalled the project. However, aft repeated pleas, ₹18 lakh was received to conception the bridge. “Instead of constructing the demanded factual bridge, it (the department) erected a specified 4-foot-wide robust pedestrian bridge—through which adjacent an ambulance cannot pass—under constabulary extortion and against the volition of the public,” helium said.
As a result, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) submitted a ailment to the State Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Commission to analyse the matter.
“Based connected this, during the enquiry held connected January 9, 2026, CPI(M) Puliyampara Branch Secretary Comrade Subair, tribal person Gopalan, and colony residents participated and explained the benefits that a factual span would bring to the radical of the area. They submitted documentary grounds to the Commission members and enquiry officers,” helium added.
They added that a petition regarding the span has besides been submitted to CPI(M) State Secretary P. Shanmugam. “The radical person demanded enactment against the officials who undermined the Chief Minister’s committedness and called for the operation of a beardown factual span susceptible of allowing ambulance access,” the connection read.
