Residents hoist black flags near Vembakottai protesting nod for quarry

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Black flags hoisted astatine  A. Lakshmiyapuram successful  Vembakottai connected  Monday.

Black flags hoisted astatine A. Lakshmiyapuram successful Vembakottai connected Monday.

Residents of A. Lakshmiyapuram adjacent Vembakottai hoisted achromatic flags connected their houses protesting against the territory medication for having fixed support to a chromatic quarry adjacent to the residential country contempt beardown absorption by them, connected Sunday.

The residents besides boycotted the gram sabha gathering arsenic the officials had fixed support to the quarry successful November 2025 aft the gram sabha gathering held successful August 2025 had passed a solution against it.

The residents questioned the validity of the grama sabha meetings if the resolutions were not honoured by the officials.

A section resident, C. Ramasubramanian, said that the quarry if allowed to beryllium operated volition ruin the drinking h2o sources and besides cultivation cognition astir the village.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) functionary, B. Mariappan said that based connected the support granted by the officials, the relation has got acceptable with crushed work.

Only aft the villagers held a bid of protests on with the enactment cadres, the officials person enactment connected holding issuing passes meant for transporting the minerals.

The quarry did not person a due pathway to transport the stones retired of the quarry. “The officials person fixed support to the quarry based connected details provided by the relation successful which a watercourse has been shown arsenic the pathway,” helium complained.

Published - January 26, 2026 10:18 p.m. IST

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