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Thursday, Dec 30, 2004

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Steps to send back families from relief camps

By Our Staff Reporter

THRISSUR, DEC. 29. The district administration has decided to take steps to send back the families staying in the three relief camps set up at Kodungallur in the wake of the tsunami fury, to their respective homes.

A meeting of the officials and people's representatives convened at Kodungallur today decided to launch the cleaning up operation in the affected areas from Wednesday. A committee headed by the Kodungallur MLA, Umesh Challiyil, was constituted to supervise the rehabilitation works. Steps will be taken to provide drinking water and to remove the waste materials in the areas on a war footing. The officials have been directed to provide adequate assistance to the people whose crops and fishing tools have been damaged.

Medical team

Expert teams from the Thrissur Medical College Hospital will visit the areas to provide support to the people who have developed psychological complications in the traumatic onslaught of sea fury.

The district panchayat president, N.K. Subramanian, said that steps would be taken to resume Azhikkode-Munambam ferry service which was damaged in the attack of the sea waves.

The District Collector, K.S. Premachandra Kurup, announced that one months' free ration will be provided in the calamity-affected areas.

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