Irula tribal people living at Chellapillaikaradu, near the Pilloor Dam, were at the Coimbatore Collectorate on Monday demanding that they be provided with houses, and a school.
In a petition submitted during the grievances redress meeting, they said that there were 80 houses for them.
The district administration had re-built 30 houses. Of the remaining 50 houses, 30 had thatched roofs. Thirty more families in the area that do not have houses lived along with those who had houses.
The district administration should provide them houses. Though they were living near the Aliyar drinking water scheme tanks, they were yet to get and drinking water facility.
The school in the area functioned from a rented building. The district administration should allocate government land for the purpose.
No bus
Residents of Kammalapatty, and members of the Makkal Viduthalai Munnani sought bus facility to the area. A petition said that children in the area had to cycle nearly 7 km to reach the nearest school.
The path they took was deserted and they suffered the most during rain and examinations.
The students in the neighbouring Chinna Kammalapatty and Periya Kammalapatty too were facing such hardships.
Reaching a hospital too was very difficult without proper bus service, the petition said.Compensation
Duped investors of a finance firm asked the district administration to fasten the auctioning of the firm’s assets to compensate their loss. A petition said that though a had ordered eight years ago that they be compensated for the loss of principal and interest, only 15 per cent of the amount had been disbursed.
There was an urgent need to compensate the investors because many among them were aged and were dependent on the money to meet their day-to-day expenditure, the petition said.
Encroachment
A person who owns an agriculture land at Bhuvaneswari Nagar, Saravanampatty, has encroached upon a traditional pathway, said a petition submitted by residents of the area. The land owner had fenced the pathway causing considerable hardship to the residents.
They had represented the matter to the Assistant Commissioner, North Zone, Coimbatore Corporation, on September 25 this year but there was no action, the petition said.
Road
Residents of Ganapathy Pudur in Ward 47 urged the district administration to complete the service road near the Textool bridge so that the residents of Balan Nagar, Chekkan Thottam, Rathinapuri, were benefitted.
