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Kamudhi, Kadaladi villages will get desalinated water

By Our Staff Reporter

RAMANATHAPURAM, APRIL 21. As many as 123 villages in the Kamudhi, Kadaladi and Sayalkudi areas will be provided with 38 lakh litres of water through the Naripayyur desalination plant on or before April 30, the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, said today.

Addressing an election meeting here, she said the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president, M. Karunanidhi's statement that his Government planned to set up a desalination plant at Naripayyur was false. It was her Government that issued an order on setting up the plant in July 1993, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited on June 1994 and the work order issued the same month. However, the work on setting up the plant was completed and commissioned during the DMK regime. It was also planned to distribute water to residents of 296 habitations in the Kadaladi, Kamudhi and Sayalkudi areas. But due to a technical fault, the officials could not distribute water within two months. They could distribute water to only 173 habitations.

Now steps were taken to rectify the fault and protected water would be distributed to all 296 habitations, she said.

Whenever the Sri Lankan Navy arrested Tamil fishermen, it was she who contacted the Prime Minister and the Ministry of External Affairs immediately for their early release. When the police in Malaysia and the Maldives arrested Tamil youth, it was she who ensured their early release. Neither Mr. Karunanidhi nor his Ministers, who enjoyed power for the past five years, raised their voice for the fishermen or the Tamil youth, she said.

The Chief Minister is likely to unveil a portrait of the DMK leader and former Minister, T. Krittunan, at Muthanenthal near his native village, Kombukaranenthal, on Friday. The former Minister was murdered in Madurai last May. Ramiha, Krittunan's brother, will join the All-India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam along with his followers at Karaikudi. Wall posters carrying pictures of the Chief Minister and Krittunan were pasted at Muthanental and Kombukaranenthal. They hailed her as the `Mother India' in the name of Tha.Ki. Peravai.

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