AIADMK flays delay in relief works

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, DEC. 13. The former Chief Minister and AIADMK leader of Pondicherry, Mr. D. Ramachandran, said here on Wednesday that it was regrettable that the Pondicherry Administration had not initiated measures to relieve the people of the misery caused by the recent cyclone.Addressing newspersons here, he said he was not able to understand why the administration should wait for the funds from the Centre when it could disburse the relief amount from out of the Consolidated Fund available at its disposal.

He said that on the part of the Central Government, it should have come forward with a token allocation of funds to the Pondicherry Government to manage the aftermath of the cyclone. He said that for political reasons the Central Government was doing injustice to Pondicherry. Should a Central Government wait for a request from the State Chief Minister when it is its duty to come to the rescue of suffering people, he asked.Mr. Ramachandran said he had received complaints from people that distribution of rice was being done in some Assembly constitutencies and there could be no justification for selection of some constituencies for distribution of rice.

He said although there should be uniformity in payment of sugarcane price for farmers supplying to all the sugar mills, it was a pity that only Rs. 730 had been paid for sugarcane growers attached to Ariyur sugar mills while the cooperative mill farmers were given a different treatment.

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