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AIADMK Government blamed for unemployment problem

Staff Reporter

CPI also holds it responsible for stalling Nanguneri hi-tech park

TENKASI: R. Nallakannu, national executive committee member, Communist Party of India (CPI), said labourers had migrated to other States and countries owing to lack of job opportunities in the State.

He told reporters here on Tuesday that the State Government, which failed to get investments for overall growth of the State, had put the Nanguneri hi-tech park proposal in cold storage thus denying employment opportunities to thousands of skilled youths.

No step was taken to provide cultivable wasteland to poor landless farmers and labourers though there was 82 lakh acres of wasteland in the State, according to a survey made in 2004.

"When the AIADMK government decided to give wasteland to corporate houses for developing it in September 2001, the CPI, which was its ally at that time, asked her not to do so, as reservoirs to be constructed by these firms in the name of developing the land would prevent the flow of water into rain-fed irrigation tanks. It would also destroy farming activities in dry rural areas, we warned. But the appeal was turned down, he said and added that it contributed to unemployment problem in the State and led to migration of workers towards greener pastures.

He criticised the AIADMK's poll promise of linking rivers in the State, as there would be no desirable result without linking peninsular rivers, with surplus water.

Mr. Nallakannu predicted that the Democratic Progressive Alliance would be victorious in the May 8 polls.

The CPI district secretary R. Shanmugavel and the Tenkasi MP S. Appadurai were present.

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