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Funds sanctioned for 13 Adi Dravida hostels

By Our Staff Reporter

CUDDALORE APRIL 6. A total of Rs 4.095 crores has been sanctioned for the construction of 13 hostels for Adi Dravida schools and industrial training institutes in Cuddalore district.

The disrict Collector, S. Thangaswamy, told presspersons that while 12 hostels would be constructed under the Part Two scheme, one hostel at Karuveppilankurichi village would be a constructed with a 50 per cent contribution by the Centre Each hostel would be built at a cost of Rs. 31.50 lakhs, he said.

The other places where the hostels would be constructed are Bhuvanagiri, Veppur, Nellikuppam, Pennadam (two hostels), Srimushnam, Panruti, Cuddalore (two hostels), Virudhachalam, Thozhudhur and Parivilagam, he said.

There was an overwhelming response to the "Rajiv Gandhi National Water Mission'' programme which involved an allocation of Rs. 40 crores, he said. The first instalment of Rs. 11.22 crores, sanctioned in July last year, experienced some inertia in the initial stage, as it was a participatory drive.

However, through motivation of village panchayat presidents and sustained propaganda efforts, about 207 works involving an outlay of Rs. 4.74 crores were taken up. Ninetynine works had been completed and the balance would be completed by June next, he said. The Collector pointed out that the first instalment would be spent before August as 65 proposals were under scrutiny for financial sanction.

The salient feature of the programme was the provision of rain harvest technique in individual residences, he said, appealing to the people to fully utilise the scheme.

Describing the disbursement of flood relief of Rs. 6.03 crores to paddy growers and pulses cultivators numbering 74,059 in Chidambaram and Kattumannarkoil taluks which bore the brunt of the unseasonal showers in Feburary last, the Collector claimed that the relief had been not only sanctioned but also disbursed in a record time. "Within a couple of months of the damage to the standing samba and blackgram, the relief had reached the pockets of the villagers'', he said, appreciating the efforts made jointly by the Revenue, Agriculture and Cooperative departments.

He said strict departmental action, including placing the services under suspension, had been ordered against a few officials who had allegedly demanded `quick money' for effecting the relief sum to farmers. There were no takers for Rs. 2.42 lakhs due for 1,410 farmers. "These farmers were either out of station or living abroad or were not the real owners'', the Collector said, adding that the relief sum would be surrendered to the Government after ascertaining the "missing'' farmers in a couple of days.

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