A long wait for better infrastructure
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Caste factor plays an important role in Tirunelveli district
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Caste factor plays an important role in Tirunelveli district
The infrastructure-starved Tirunelveli Assembly segment which faced the past 14 Assembly polls with a lot of promises from its MLAs in the past is gearing up to face yet another election.
Dusty narrow streets, roads further narrowed down by encroachments, no step taken for laying broader roads, improper drainage channels and free flow of drainage into channels carrying water for irrigation from the Tamirabharani continue to be eye sore of this town. While religion plays a major role in the voting pattern in elections in the Kanniyakumari district, the caste factor decides the winners in the districts of Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi. The constituency has 33,000 voters of Thevar community, followed by Pillai (32,000) and Yadhava (18,000).
Kadambur Raju confident of facing Dhinakaran
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Information Minister Kadambur C. Raju, who will face AMMK leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran in Kovilpatti Assembly constituency, is confident of emerging victorious at the hustings.
Mr. Raju, who arrived at Kovilpatti on Thursday, a day after being given the AIADMK ticket, said he did not see Mr. Dhinakaran as a major challenge to him.
“The ‘Two Leaves’ symbol that gave a crowning victory in seven of the 10 Assembly polls in the past, will register victory again in Kovilpatti where I have implemented several development projects, including second drinking water scheme for Kovilpatti Municipality. We, besides implementing all the poll promises made in 2016, have also executed a good number of other welfare schemes in our segment. I am facing the election with a sense of satisfaction of executing all poll promises and hence the people will back me again,” Mr. Raju hoped.
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AAA The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday summoned Tirunelveli Collector to appear before the court on March 12, after an order of the court to disperse compensation amount for land acquired for a road project was not complied with.
Justice V. Parthiban summoned the Collector in a contempt petition filed by 76-year-old S. Gopalakrishnan of Tirunelveli. The petitioner said that the court passed the order in 2019 but he was yet to get the relief. He said that in 2012, the Tirunelveli Corporation, in order to avoid traffic congestion, acquired lands to lay a road between S.N High Road and Arunagiri theatre via Parvathi theatre in Tirunelveli.
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They submit petition to Collector seeking patta for the land
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Residents of Viswakarma Colony at Anna Nagar in Palayamkottaiat the Collectorate in Tirunelveli on Monday.
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They submit petition to Collector seeking patta for the land
A group of residents from Viswakarma Colony near Palayamkottai submitted a petition to Collector V. Vishnu on Monday appealing for patta for the land on which they have constructed their houses and residing over the past 40 years.
The petitioners, led by M. Esakkimuthu, said they lived in huts in the colony as they were labourers. They constructed permanent houses with loan availed from Palayamkottai Cooperative Housing Society. The houses were give power connection after they paid taxes to Tirunelveli Corporation.
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday directed Tirunelveli Corporation to take steps and complete works on the road connecting Tirunelveli Town and Junction. The court said the works sh