Date:21/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/21/stories/2008122159780300.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Panel receives 121 petitions

Staff Reporter

Those who do not have family card also eligible for relief

Photo: K.V.Srinivasan

Pressing their demand: Residents of Royapettah resorting to road roko on R.K.Salai on Saturday, seeking flood relief. —

CHENNAI: The Petition Committee of the Chennai Collectorate, set up to gather details of those not covered in the flood relief distribution, has received 121 petitions.

“We will look into these petitions and after assessing the eligibility of the petitioners, distribute the Rs. 2,000 relief to them,” Collector Mythili K. Rajendran told The Hindu on Saturday.

Other cases

Apart from the Collectorate, taluk offices were also receiving petitions from those left out and their cases too would be considered if found eligible, she said.

“Those who do not have a family card, but were affected during the floods last month, are also eligible for the relief,” she said.

Block traffic

On Saturday, residents of V.M. Street and Saivamuthaiah Street in Royapettah, blocked traffic on Radhakrishnan Salai for sometime.

They protested that their names were not in the list of persons who will get the relief despite some of their neighbours getting the relief money.

Police personnel came and dispersed the crowd.

They said that some people also crowded outside the Mambalam-Guindy taluk office protesting non-inclusion of their names in the list of beneficiaries on Saturday.