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Release subsidy, say beedi workers

Staff Reporter

For construction of houses

TIRUNELVELI: Demanding immediate release of the Centre's subsidy for construction of houses, a group of beedi workers submitted petition to the Collector, Atul Anand, on Monday.

The petitioners, mostly women, said the Centre had said that beedi workers would get a subsidy Rs. 45,000 to construct a house under the Integrated Beedi Workers' Housing Scheme. Though most of them had built basement of houses and officials had inspected them, the initial sum of Rs. 5,000 was not released.

So, some beedi workers came to the Collectorate with cooking utensils. As the police tried to stop them, they picked up wordy duel with them.

However normalcy returned after five of them decided to meet the Collector to hand over the petition.

Residents of Mela Ilanthaikulam submitted a petition to the Collector seeking adequate supply of protected drinking water to their village.

Another group of Dalits from Melapaattam sought the Collector's intervention to remove encroachment made by "upper caste Hindus" in the public place where seven temples have been constructed.

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