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The DMK has, successful a memorandum to Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan, urged his involution successful moving the Centre to instrumentality assorted long-pending demands, including Statehood, for the Union Territory of Puducherry.
In the memorandum, Leader of Opposition and DMK convenor R. Siva, who led a delegation to conscionable the Vice President during his caller sojourn to Puducherry, stated that portion the Prime Minister had made a committedness for BEST (Business, Education, Spirituality, Tourism) Puducherry, galore demands important to the U.T. were pending with the Centre.
The memorandum sought contiguous attraction to the long-pending pleas for the waiver of bequest loans, reopening of shuttered textile, spinning and sweetener mills, and fiscal assistance for industrialising the 800 acre of onshore acquired astatine Setharapet. A peculiar strategy for promotion of tourism crossed the U.T. was besides sought.
The memorandum cited arsenic among the assorted anti-people measures launched by the Government toeing the enactment of the Centre, the closure of ration shops, the hurried instauration of CBSE syllabus crossed schools successful spot of the Tamil Nadu School Board strategy being successfully followed each these years, and the determination to privatise the energy sector.
The DMK urged the Union Government to spot the Karaikal Port nether authorities control. Handing implicit the larboard to a backstage entity had choked a captious root of gross for the Puducherry government.
It besides called for fast-tracking respective stalled projects including the Chennai-Marakkanam-Pondicherry-Cuddalore and the Tindivanam-Pondicherry-Cuddalore railway lines, the Panithittu-Moorthikuppam coastal tourism strategy to amended the livelihoods of fishermen and the breakwater operation task successful the region.
The DMK memorandum besides echoed the entreaty made by Chief Minister N. Rangasamy, successful seeking the implementation of 25% quota for domicile students successful assorted programmes offered by the Pondicherry Central University, which had evolved connected 300 acres of onshore provided by the Government of Puducherry. It pointed retired that an earlier strategy of preservation for locals successful admissions had been discontinued. A akin preferential quota for module and unit appointments had besides been stopped and required to beryllium restored to support the interests of autochthonal students and unemployed youth, the memorandum stated.
The memorandum besides flagged the declining privileges for locals successful jobs astatine Jipmer, which was besides an instauration that benefited from government-provided land. It is indispensable that astatine slightest 50 percent of the jobs are guaranteed for the radical of Pondicherry. Similarly, aesculapian attraction should beryllium provided wholly escaped of charge, the memorandum said. The DMK besides sought a thorough probe into the counterfeit cause manufacturing scam that would bring to publication each progressive to reconstruct nationalist confidence.
