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Mettuppalayam: Central and State governments are keen on providing basic facilities to people, Union Minister for Information and Communication Technology A. Raja said on Saturday. He was speaking at a function organised to provide electricity for tribal hamlets in Pilloor Reserve Forest area. The Minister switched on the supply to tribal hamlets in Pilloor Reserve forests, Nellithurai and Paralikadu, benefiting over 225 Irular houses. The same had been provided at Rs 60 lakh. Mr. Raja said that Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, who was in Coimbatore recently, came to know of tribal hamlets languishing without power supply and directed Chief Secretary K.S. Sripathi to visit the areas and furnish a report. Based on the report, action was taken by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board to supply power to these areas. He also said that reservation of seats was announced for first generation students joining engineering, agriculture, law and medicine and then considering the financial burden on the parents, he has now announced that the government would bear the cost of education. Mr.Raja also pointed out that 19 per cent of the budgetary allocation was being spent towards welfare of suppressed and oppressed communities. Telecom revolution He said India was spearheading a revolution in telecommunications and the number of new cellular phone connections issued per month had reached an all time high of 20 million. He said that now villagers having free power supply were asking for a plug point to charge their cellular phones. Rural Industries and Animal Husbandry Minister Pongalur N Palanisamy said that road, water and rice had been extended to rural and tribal people. Areas that went without basic amenities in the last 50 years had been taken care of. Very soon, Coimbatore district would have the distinction of being the first district to have 100 per cent electricity distribution network to all areas.
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