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VENTING THEIR IRE: Residents of fishing hamlets protesting the demolition of a road and a retaining wall near the East Coast Road on Thursday. TAMBARAM: A few hundred residents from fishing hamlets in Tiruvanmiyur, Kottivakkam, Palavakkam and Neelankarai, off East Coast Road, protested a government move to demolish a road and a retaining wall running through their areas. For the past three days, officials of the Revenue Department of Chengalpattu Revenue Division and Tambaram taluk have been talking to residents and representatives of fishermen organisations. The officials told the residents that they had to remove the nearly three-km-long road or at least a portion of it following a court order. PIL petitionThe order was passed following a public interest litigation petition that the road came in the way of Olive Ridley turtles to hatch their eggs during the nesting period. Fishermen were vociferous in their protest to the proposed demolition of the road and even allegedly threatened the officials if they started the work. The road connecting Tiruvanmiyur Kuppam with Chinna Neelankarai Kuppam runs through localities in Chennai Corporation and Kottivakkam, Palavakkam and Neelankarai village panchayats of St. Thomas Mount panchayat union, Kancheepuram district. Actor and former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Sarath Kumar spent Rs.7.5 lakh from his constituency development fund to lay the bitumen-topped road in 2002-2003. The road immensely benefited fisherfolk to transport fish and other produce to different places and was also a boon to early morning walkers and joggers. Removing the road would severely harm the interests of several hundred fishermen families, said R.Anbazhagan, founder president of Tamil Nadu Meenavar Peravai (Fishermen Forum). When the officials returned on Thursday morning, scores of women squatted on the road as a mark of protest. An earth-mover was deployed and a large number of policemen were also posted on security duty. Following intense negotiations that lasted more than three hours, a stone plaque indicating the work carried out in 2003 and a portion of the retaining wall were demolished. Representatives from various political parties came to the spot and demanded the constitution of a high-level committee to review the situation. Though the fisherfolk dispersed from the spot, they vowed to continue their struggle.
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