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The Attur (SC) constituency, located 50 km distant from Salem town, is predominantly an cultivation country for tapioca cultivation and Attur has dozens of sago factories.
The constituency was represented by the AIADMK (1991, 2001, 2011, 2016, and 2021) and the Congress (1962, 1977, 1980, 1984, and 2006) 5 times each and by the DMK 4 times (1967, 1971, 1989, and 1996).
S. Rajendran, a tapioca farmer, said that Attur is 1 of the largest tapioca-cultivating areas successful Tamil Nadu. But the terms fixed by the sago factories for the tapioca is not enough. Sagoserve functioning successful Salem ensures the prime of sago produced and exported. A Sagoserve subdivision should beryllium established successful Attur, helium said.
A. Jayaraman, a nonmigratory of Ramanaickenpalayam, said that farmers person been demanding operation of a tiny dam astatine Ramanaickenpalayam for the past 20 years.
A.K. Kanagaraj, a nonmigratory of Vellalapatti, said that residents of Vellalapatti, Ganesapuram, Neiyamalai Foothills, Kanavaikadu, and Kurichi agrarian areas endure without mobile telephone signals. “We person submitted aggregate petitions but determination is nary action,” helium said. Farmers person been demanding for years for h2o from the Puzhuthikuttai dam done a assistance irrigation strategy to Vellalapatti, which volition payment implicit 2,000 hectares of cultivation land. The Vashishta River, which flows successful Attur, was erstwhile utilized for drinking h2o purposes. But now, sewage released into it from successful and astir Attur is flowing, helium said.
P. Siva, a nonmigratory of Attur, said that for the past 10 years, radical person been demanding bifurcation of Salem territory to make Attur arsenic a abstracted district. Political parties, including the PMK and the KMDK, raised this issue galore times and successful 2014, AIADMK MLA S. Madheswaran raised this request successful the Assembly. People residing successful Attur and Thalaivasal question 50 km and 70 km respectively, to scope Salem.
N. Madeswaran, a nonmigratory of Attur municipality, said that drinking h2o proviso is the main contented successful the municipality arsenic the proviso is conscionable doubly oregon thrice a period from the Attur-Nangavalli combined drinking h2o scheme. A caller dedicated h2o proviso strategy is needed oregon the existing pipelines should beryllium replaced and h2o should beryllium supplied astatine regular intervals, helium added.
M. Saravanan, a nonmigratory of Narasingapuram, said that each the buses headed to Attur autobus basal from Salem walk done the constrictive roads of Narasingapuram. The Narasingapuram-Attur agelong has constrictive roads successful galore places and postulation issues are communal successful the mornings and evenings. The autobus basal should beryllium shifted from Attur to the outer country to trim the traffic.
