378 families affected by floods in Cauvery: Namakkal Collector
Staff Reporter
Water level has steadily increased since Thursday night
— Photo: M. Govarthan
Taking stock: Namakkal Collector G. Sundaramurthi ( left) visits flood-affected areas in Pallipalayam on Friday morning.
PALLIPALAYAM: As many as 378 families have been affected in towns bordering River Cauvery in Namakkal district, Collector G. Sundaramurthi has said.
Mr. Sundaramurthi, who on Friday morning visited the flood-affected areas in Pallipalayam, went around Pavadi Street and Agraharam areas to take stock of the situation. He asked the affected persons about the water level.
The residents, about 200 of them, told the Collector that since Thursday night the water level had steadily increased. At 6 in the morning it reduced for a brief while only to rise again.
The Collector waded through knee-deep water to ask the residents if the local administrators had provided them with food and shelter.
At Sengunthar Wedding Hall, he met the displaced to enquire about their health. He asked a girl, S. Karthika, why she was not attending school and then directed her parents to send the girl to school.
At Agraharam, the affected women complained to the Collector that their displacement due to rising water level in the Cauvery had become an annual feature, and that their repeated pleas for an alternative site had remained largely ignored.
An annual feature
In response to their complaints, Mr. Sundaramurthi told the women that the State Government had sanctioned money for providing house site pattas and asked them to make a representation to the district administration.
When the women replied that their earlier pleas had fallen on deaf ears, he assured the women that he had the Government’s Rs. 35 lakh for the purpose and that their please would definitely be considered.
Talking to reporters at 9 a.m., he said the water flow was around 1,20,000 cusecs. Of the 378 affected, 15 were from the low-lying areas of Komarapalayam, he added. Tiruchengode MLA P. Thangamani, Revenue Division Officer, Tiruchengode, V. Rajan Durai, and officials from the district administration and Pallipalayam Municipality accompanied the Collector.
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