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Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, 29/11/2025: A conception of Kattu Nayakkar families surviving wrong an abandoned authorities veterinary infirmary gathering successful Vaimedu adjacent Vedaranyam conflict without basal amenities, facing rainwater leakage and a three-day powerfulness cut. Photo: R Vengadesh / THE HINDU | Photo Credit: R. VENGADESH
An isolated Scheduled Tribe (ST) colony of astir 10 families successful Vaimedu adjacent Vedaranyam has been without powerfulness proviso for the past 2 days, with rainfall h2o entering their makeshift dwellings and nary basal services restored truthful far, residents said.
The families, each from the Kattu Nayakkar community, unrecorded successful tiny tiled and tin-roof structures abutting the authorities veterinary session astatine Vaimedu. After the caller dense rainfall h2o entered their cramped rooms and has remained stagnant successful and astir the settlement.
“We don’t person a location of our own, we don’t person immoderate money. Sometimes we get work, sometimes we beg to survive,” said D. Nagooran, the assemblage leader. “For 2 days determination is nary power, and we are removing the h2o from our rooms with our ain hands. No 1 has travel here,” helium told The Hindu.
Residents T. Raja and S. Pushpavalli said the colony had nary due roadworthy access, with slush and lasting h2o cutting them disconnected aft each spell of dense rain. Six school-going children unrecorded successful the hamlet, but nary presently attends school.
“Our children find it hard to set with different assemblage students successful the adjacent schools. There is nary 1 to usher america properly. So, they person stopped going,” Mr. Nagooran said, pointing to S. Sakthi, a Class I child, and others who present walk their days successful the flooded courtyard.
Community members said they traditionally enactment arsenic rat catchers successful houses and cultivation fields, and immoderate besides merchantability integrative items successful adjacent villages. “Work is not regular, and now, with the rain, we person nothing,” a nonmigratory said.
The families were primitively from Idumbavanam panchayat successful Tiruvarur territory and moved to Vaimedu astir 8 years ago, they said.
Official sources said the families person been issued house-site pattas, but acknowledged that they had not been capable to conception imperishable houses for privation of resources. There was besides hesitation among surrounding villages to accommodate them fully, 1 authoritative admitted.
