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KOCHI, MARCH 22. Hundreds of activists, including women, from the Vypeen island under the Drinking Water Agitation Samithy today laid siege to the District Collector's camp office here. Protestors came in a procession from the High Court junction. The police stopped them before the Chief Justice's residence, which is close to the camp office. The protest meeting that followed was inaugurated by K.N. Ramachandran, national secretary of CPI(ML). The Government's withdrawal from service sectors and privatisation of the same had led to crisis in many sectors, including distribution of water. This agitation formed part of the agitations against the selling of service sectors to corporate giants, Mr. Ramachandran said. Unless the Vypeen-section of the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) water distribution project was commissioned before April 30, life in the city would come to a standstill.
More protests
Representatives of the administration should tell when the HUDCO project would be completed. The Samithy would plan more aggressive protest measures after that, he said. In his presidential address, M.G. Xavier, convener of the Samithy, said that successive Governments had failed to implement projects like the HUDCO. The Samithy also opposed the proposed desalination plant at Edavanakkad. Desalination plants had proved to be financially unviable. Three plants were lying unused in Alappuzha, Chellanam and Cherai, said T. C. Subramanian, general secretary of the Samithy.
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