Jawahirullah urges government to correct addresses of fishers in official records

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M.H. Jawahirullah. File

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Manithaneya Makkal Katchi president M.H. Jawahirullah connected Thursday (January 8, 2026) called for contiguous authorities enactment to close the addresses of sportfishing communities successful authoritative records.

His connection comes aft The Hindu connected Wednesday (January 7) reported that galore residents of sportfishing hamlets successful the metropolis were uncovering it hard to update records successful Aadhaar and different documents, specified arsenic nativity certificates, owed to deficiency of due addresses. They claimed that this was due to the fact that the names of streets and localities were missing successful the records. 

Mr. Jawahirullah said thousands of families successful coastal areas, including Nochikuppam and Kovalam, are incapable to update important documents similar Aadhaar, elector IDs, and commencement certificates owed to discrepancies successful authorities databases.

Despite spending hours astatine e-service centres, galore applications are being rejected owed to incomplete information, helium said successful a statement.

Mr. Jawahirullah cautioned that nonaccomplishment to rectify these errors could disenfranchise the sportfishing community, peculiarly during the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR). He urged the authorities to organise peculiar camps to update addresses and guarantee each applicable information is synchronised crossed authorities databases.

Published - January 08, 2026 06:22 p.m. IST

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