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Kariyampatti village has no burial ground

TIRUPATTUR: Kariyampatti, coming under the Nariyaneri panchayat near Tirupattur in Vellore district, has no burial ground. The panchayat president is looking for a place, but there has been delay owing to political and administrative reasons. The panchayat president wants the proposal taken up under the Anna Marumalarchi Scheme.

They have identified a ‘poromboke’ land adjacent to the fruit-processing unit to cremate bodies. About 100 families reside in Kariyampatti, which is far away from the Tirupattur-Krishnagiri Main Road. Residents in the newly approved area say that they do not take bodies for cremation to Kariyampatti due to the distance. The newly identified burial ground is just half-a-kilometre away from the newly approved area.

Nariyaneri panchayat president N. Thiagarajan says that he has taken cognisance of the situation and is looking for a place for the burial ground. Nariyaneri will be covered under the Anna Marumalarchi Scheme for the financial year 2008-2009. The residents have to wait till that time.

Further, Kariyampatti is plagued by environment degradation and lack of drinking water. The residents say that a fruit-processing factory on the Tirupattur-Krishnagiri Main Road has been polluting the groundwater. There are borewells close to the fruit-processing unit and the water is orange in colour.

The residents, who work as agriculture labourers, say that they cannot afford to buy drinking water. The food-processing unit has dug 12 to 15 borewells on the factory campus to process the fruits. The problem of drinking water is felt more during drought. But the situation is not any different during the rest of the year when there is monsoon failure.

However, the residents acknowledge that the food-processing unit generates employment for the locals during the peak fruit season, which extends for over three months. But the unit dumps fruit waste on the Tirupattur-Krishnagiri Main Road.

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