Volunteers unloading provisions for residents of Nagaroorthu tribal settlement in Anamalai Tiger Reserve on Wednesday.
Tamil Nadu government’s COVID-19 relief measures, financial assistance of ₹ 4,000 and the kit of groceries, are not likely to reach many of the tribal families in Coimbatore district as they do not have ration cards.
Representatives from tribal settlements in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) areas, a landscape home to the highest number of tribal families in Coimbatore district, claimed that at least 10 % of families lack ration cards to get these benefits.
“There are 17 tribal settlements in Coimbatore district limits of ATR. As per official records with the Forest Department, which are several years old, there are 986 families. The actual number of families will be more than 1,000. Of these, around 100 families do not have ration cards,” claims V.S. Paramasivam, Coimbatore district president of the Tamil Nadu Tribal Association.
Farmers’ organisations in the central districts and Coimbatore hoisted black flags to express solidarity with the farmers agitating against the three new farm laws in New Delhi, and to press the Union government to repeal the laws
People from Coimbatore extend solidarity to ‘black day’ observance
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Black flag raised in front of a house near Aliyar in Coimbatore on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: SPL Black flags were raised atop hundreds of houses across Coimbatore district on Wednesday as people extended solidarity to the call to observe it a black day by farmers who are protesting against the three disputed agricultural laws.
Coimbatore MP P.R. Natarajan put up a black flag in front of his house. He held a poster which said that the observance of black day marked the completion of six months of protest by farmers against the agricultural laws on Delhi borders and seven years of Narendra Modi government at the Centre. Black flag was also hoisted at the district committee office of the CPI (M) at Gandhipuram in Coimbatore.
Provisions distributed to tribal families
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The association was taking efforts to arrange similar relief packages for other tribal families living in the forests of ATR during the lockdown.
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Tribal families of Koomatti settlement with the relief materials arranged by the Tamil Nadu Tribal Association on Sunday. | Photo Credit: SPL
The association was taking efforts to arrange similar relief packages for other tribal families living in the forests of ATR during the lockdown. Around 35 families of Koomatti tribal settlement, around 25 km from Valparai, heaved a sigh of relief on Sunday after volunteers of Tamil Nadu Tribal Association arranged for them provisions for over a week through a sponsor.
Rain, gale wreck tribal settlement
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Families seek shelter in caves
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One of the dwellings at Chinnarpathi tribal settlement near Aliyar that was damaged in heavy rain and gale on Friday night. | Photo Credit: SPL
Families seek shelter in caves
When heavy rain started to lash Aliyar near Pollachi on Friday evening, young couple Suresh and Sangeetha from Chinnarpathi tribal settlement prepared for a tough journey.
Along with other families, the couple carried their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Pournika and embarked on a trek through the jungle to an alternative dwelling which had been home to their ancestors for years – the caves.