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Relief eludes this group of victims

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, JAN. 2. It is a week since the tsunami hit Pondicherry and a semblance of normality is returning. People are venturing back to their homes during the day and yet others have gone back to their homes to try and start afresh. The Government still distributes food to the affected people and has provided an interim relief of rice, clothes and cash through the Fisheries Department.

But the around 100 people who lived on the beach near the new lighthouse in the Manalmedu area do not have anywhere to live as their huts have been washed away. During the day, they live under plastic sheets, whose ends have been tied to sticks and in the night they stay inside garbage segregation sheds of the Asia Urbs Project.

"We were first staying in the Leprosy Home in Dubrayapet but since our children were disturbing the peace there, we shifted out. Here, food does not arrive on time and we have no place to live. Even though we received rice from the Government we do not have space to cook it. We cannot light stoves in the open since the breeze puts it off," say the people.

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