Slow progress of infrastructure work, free-for-all situation on busy roads and unemployment frustrate voters of Mayiladuthurai

“Aayiram aanalum Mayuram aagathu” — the oft-quoted operation reflects the taste pridefulness of Mayiladuthurai, known for its temples, hospitality and fertile lands. But residents accidental the constituency, contempt becoming a territory office successful 2020, continues to look dilatory infrastructure development, constricted concern growth, and gaps successful nationalist services, prompting migration of younker and concerns implicit civic amenities.

K. Murugan, caput of the Tamil Nadu Sugarcane Farmers’ Association, said the closure of the Nadippisai Pulavar K.R. Ramaswamy Co-operative Sugar Mills (NPKR) remained a cardinal contented successful the district. Established successful 1986 and expanded to a crushing capableness of 3,700 tonnes successful 1992, the mill employed astir 550 workers regular and supported implicit 24,000 sugarcane farmers from Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Mayiladuthurai, and Thanjavur. Its closure successful 2017 owed to neglect reduced sugarcane cultivation and adversely affected the section economy, helium said.