MADURAI: The sad plight of hundreds of families living without basic civic amenities at a village very near to Madurai has come to light.
Empty water pots, dry drinking water taps, mud roads, unhygienic sanitary conditions and suffering women welcome you as you enter this tiny hamlet.
Adaikkampatti village, which is situated opposite to the Madurai Kamaraj University campus (near Vadapalanji) is looking as an example of utter neglect where women and children are the worst sufferers. A.K.Bose of the AIADMK is their local MLA.
The basic requirements of Adaikkampatti village – for drinking water, good road and a pathway to cremation ground etc.- were taken to the attention of Madurai district collector K.Veera Raghava Rao by the Madurai district BJP team after villagers brought their poor living condition to the notice of the party.
Prof.Dr.R.Srinivasan, BJP State Secretary (Tamil Nadu), along with local party leaders and cadres visited the village on June 17 (Saturday) for an on-the-spot assessment of the people’s urgent civic needs. More than 400 families who make their living on daily wages are looking with hope for the immediate intervention of Maduai district administration and the district collector.
Bharatiya Janata Party -Madurai functionaries- S.Damayanthi Manivannan (Tamil Nadu Mutharayar Sangam State secretary) and Mr.S.Sankar Pandi (Madurai Zonal in-charge of BJP Youth Wing)- are in constant touch with the people of Adakampatti village expressing their solidarity for the cause of this village on behalf of the party.
During the visit of BJP team on June 17th morning, the villagers especially women turned up in large numbers to narrate their plight and seek the party’s help in taking up the issue with district collector. “For the last seven years we are not getting drinking water. Pipelines have been laid but they are of no use to us. We get water only once in a week in our village and all of us walk for three kilometres daily to fetch water,” a poor woman told the BJP team.
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Another woman said that many children of Adaikkampatti village are missing school because of lack of water supply. Villagers also told BJP leaders Mrs.Damayanthi and Mr.Sankar Pandian about the urgent need for a safe crossing for villagers at the railway track coming up there.
Dr.Srinivasan, who heard the grievances of the villagers, had assured that the BJP Madurai is briefing the district collector about the basic civic needs of this village and he will personally meet the collector in a couple of days.
“When our BJP team took up the matter with Madurai district collector in person on June 16, he responded positively and we hope he will act fast to help the Adakkampatti village. We will follow it up,” he said.
Ms.Damayanthi told the villagers that the BJP will start a “Thamarai Sevai Mayyam’ in the village soon to help the villagers. In Adakkampatti village, most of the people are from poor economic strata belonging to Mutharayar community and Mrs.Damayanthi, who is the State secretary of Tamil Nadu Mutharayar Sangam, has assured that she will pursue the village issues at all levels along with the BJP leaders to get the problems solved at the earliest.
Local villager Vellaichamy is mobilising the people in that locality to put pressure on the district administration and State government for getting their problems solved immediately. The demand for old age pensions was also raised by the villagers.
