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Demanding contiguous withdrawal of the Tasmac’s determination to unfastened a liquor store astatine Bethel Nagar adjacent Pazhavoor and appealing to the territory medication not to unfastened liquor shops astatine immoderate spot betwixt Sanganthiradu to Suthamalli, wherever the labourers unrecorded successful ample number, the CPI (ML) submitted petition to District Collector R. Sukumar connected Monday.
The petitioners said astir of the villagers surviving successful the hamlets betwixt Sanganthiradu and Suthamalli are farmhands and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Program labourers, whose trivial income is being robbed of by the liquor shops astatine Kondanagaram and Thiruppanikarisalkulam. The mediocre families, aft losing the breadwinners’ income to the liquor shops, are starving.
Against this backdrop, the Tasmac has planned to unfastened liquor store astatine Bethel Nagar to summation the fig of liquor shops to 3 wrong abbreviated region arsenic Kondanagaram and Thiruppanikarisalkulam already person liquor shops.
While the fig of radical consuming liquor would sharply summation successful these areas, the fig of families losing their tiny income to alcoholism would besides spell up to permission the families successful abject poverty. Moreover, the alcohol-induced transgression complaint would besides summation menacingly successful this mediocre agrarian area.
In different words, the families would suffer their bid portion the children would suffer their attraction connected education.
“Since this country is already a communally delicate zone, fixed the crimes took spot successful the past, the Collector should instruct the TASMAC officials to cancel the bid for opening the liquor store astatine Bethel Nagar. Moreover, the Collector should besides bid that determination should beryllium nary liquor store betwixt Sanganthiradu and Suththamalli,” the petition said.
With akin plea, a radical of villagers from Puthukurichi nether Alwaneri colony panchayat nether Nanguneri taluk submitted a petition to the Collector.
“The liquor store is located conscionable 70 meters distant from the panchayat national superior schoolhouse and we’ve to transverse the liquor store to scope our ranches oregon the temple successful the village. A Class XII pupil from our village, who bought liquor from this store connected the archetypal time of its opening, rode the motorcycle nether the power of intoxicant and is undergoing attraction successful the infirmary successful captious condition. We’ve submitted much than 10 petitions successful the past seeking regular proviso of drinking water. Instead, the authorities has opened a liquor store successful our village. Will you adjacent this liquor store lone aft a drunkard sexually assaults a pistillate oregon a miss child?” the villagers asked vehemently aft submitting the petition.
A radical of car drivers from Suthamalli Junction submitted a petition appealing to the Collector not to relocate their auto-stand from Suthamalli Junction for facilitating the Suthamalli postulation land enlargement arsenic portion of the Tirunelveli westbound bypass road.
The petitioners said much than 125 car drivers were members of the 30-year-old Suthamalli Junction auto-stand, who were serving the nationalist coming to adjacent Sri Uchipillayar Temple.
Since the auto-stand and the temple were connected the upcoming Tirunelveli westbound bypass road, the officials had issued announcement for relocating the auto-stand to immoderate different spot and the temple arsenic well.
Considering the livelihood of the car drivers, the Collector should let the auto-stand to relation from the aforesaid spot too exempting the temple from being removed arsenic portion of the roadworthy project, they said.
