Scores of Dalits from Rathinapuri under Kayalpatnam Municipality in Tiruchendur taluk thronged the Collectorate here on Monday seeking the intervention of the district administration to get them house site pattas.
In a petition submitted to Collector M. Ravikumar, they said that they had been living at Rathinapuri for several years but they had not got house site pattas.
They said that many of them were working on daily wages.
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Several houses in parts of Rathinapuri sheltered more than two families. Some of the people had been living in huts since 2000 managing with the assistance provided by the Adi Dravida Welfare Department, they claimed.
They had submitted several petitions to the district administration and at the Tiruchendur Revenue Divisional Office over the last one year, but no effort was taken to provide them pattas.
The agitators entered the Collector’s office demanding pattas at the earliest.
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The Collector told them that necessary steps would be taken to provide them pattas.
Suddenly, the blood pressure of one of the agitators, Sudali (55), shot up and she was rushed to Tuticorin Government Medical College Hospital in a 108 ambulance
VCK protest
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi cadres also staged a demonstration at the Collectorate demanding house site pattas for several people residing at Thomas Nagar in Ilupaioorani. Later, a petition was submitted to the Collector.