Stalin demands relief for farmers
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DMK president M.K. Stalin on Sunday urged Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami to increase monetary help to folks and farmers affected by Cyclone Burevi in Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Cuddalore and Tiruvarur districts, with out ready for the Union authorities’s assist.
“When the Central government team visits the flood-affected areas, the State government should meticulously explain the damage and get adequate funds from the Centre. DMK MPs will support the government on this count,” he stated in an announcement.
Mr. Stalin, who visited Cuddalore, Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur districts, stated that greater than 50,000 homes and crops planted on three lakh acres had been submerged.
“Roads have been damaged in the rain, and water has entered the Iravatheeswarar temple at Tarasuram. Help has not reached people, and farmers made a complaint to me,” Mr. Stalin stated.
Mr. Stalin stated the suburban areas of Chennai had not recovered from the flood, and because the stormwater drainage scheme had not been applied, rainwater was stagnating, posing well being hazards to folks.
Mr. Stalin visited villages in Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts, affected by the current rain, and distributed relief supplies among the many folks.
Visits to villages
Mr. Stalin, who arrived in Tiruvarur on Saturday night time, commenced his visits to rain-affected areas within the district on Sunday morning.
He visited Ammaiappan and Kaavanur villages, the place paddy crops had been inundated within the heavy rain. He distributed relief supplies — 10 kg of rice, groceries, greens and mattress sheets — amongst these at non permanent relief centres, in Katchanam and Thazhakudi.
Before leaving, the DMK chief, who stayed at his household home in Tiruvarur city, supplied floral tributes to a portrait of Ambedkar, on the event of the chief’s dying anniversary.
Mr. Stalin was accompanied by former Minister and the occasion’s principal secretary, K.N. Nehru, and Tiruvarur district secretary and MLA Poondi K. Kalaivanan.
The DMK chief, who entered Nagapattinam through Kolapadu village, was given a reception.
He then went to his ancestral home in Thirukkuvalai, and garlanded the statues of his grandfather Muthuvelar, grandmother Anjugamammal, father and former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and former Union Minister Murasoli Maran.
Damage to crops
Later, he went to Melapidagai village, close to Velankanni, and received down at an inundated paddy discipline. He ascertained from the farmers the extent of injury to their crops.
He gave away relief materials to 200 affected folks in Melapidagai.
He additionally visited Melanagore, the place he distributed relief materials to 250 individuals.
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