Fisherfolk want better facilities at crematoriums

Fishermen person urged the State authorities to guarantee that indispensable facilities astatine burial grounds and crematoriums are disposable for coastal communities. They accidental galore deficiency adjacent basal infrastructure specified arsenic lighting, water, burning sheds and attack roads. 

At Odaikuppam adjacent the Ashtalakshmi Temple successful Besant Nagar, a nonmigratory said that the crematorium had not lights and did not person a due burning shed. “A way was laid utilizing gathering rubble and connected apical of that interlocking bricks were laid. But the full happening has travel disconnected and we are uncovering it hard to adjacent to locomotion carrying the bodies of the deceased,” said a resident, who chose to stay anonymous. 

At the adjacent Thiruvanmiyur Kuppam, the crematorium is being utilized by non-fishers. “There was immoderate occupation and present lone radical of different castes person obtained the support to usage it. There is simply a lawsuit and we person to get impleaded truthful that we excessively tin usage the facility, said a resident.

At Nainarkuppam down the East Coast Road (ECR), fishers person been warring a conflict to retrieve the onshore that had been donated to the sportfishing community. “The High Court has told the Greater Chennai Corporation successful 2023 to guarantee the crematorium has due approvals. But, truthful acold thing has happened. The constabulary is preventing america from utilizing the onshore bestowed tous,” said Arul, a assemblage person who has been warring for the rights of his colony to cremate/bury their dormant successful onshore that had been usage for respective decades now.

Community person K. Bharathi said that instances of deficiency of facilities astatine crematoriums were to beryllium recovered each implicit the State. “At immoderate places similar Semmancheri connected the ECR, improvement projects person forced our radical to determination distant from spaces that person been utilized for centuries even. The deficiency of a corporate dependable has led to specified a situation. We person written to Chief Minister M. K. Stalin urging him to safeguard our rights,” helium added.