Central team wraps up tour with Nagai visit, hails relief work

 In Nagapattinam district, the team members started their visit at 8.30 am and began with the inspections in Vettaikaraniruppu. They visited the shelters in the villages and also inspected the damages caused to the huts and electric poles and transformers around the village. They then proceeded to Kovilpathu where the TNCSC godown had collapsed.

 They inspected food preparation for the people in the relief camp at Periyakuthagai and interacted with the people housed in the camp.

 Subsequently, they went to the flooded village of Pushpavanam, where sea water has intruded up to 3 km inland. The team also visited the damages caused by the cyclone to paddy, coconuts and horticultural cultivation near Naluvethapathy.

In Vilunthamavadi they inspected the damages to fishing boats. The team returned to their hotel in Veilankanni around 1 pm. They also inspected the damaged compound walls of the Govt Higher Secondary School in TR Pattinam, damaged coconut trees in Kakkamozhy, Athipadugai, damaged huts in Kilianoor and Thondamangalapettai hamlets.  However, the team skipped the worst hit Kodiyakarai.

 On completion of the assessment in Nagapattinam district, the team said that they had almost covered the places where various sections of the community are affected. “We shall prepare a report and submit it to the Centre. We are hopeful that those who are affected would get proper compensation,” Daniel Richard, who headed the team, said.

He appreciated the workers, especially from the Tangedco, who were involved in the restoration work and claimed that their unceasing involvement would bring these cyclone hit villages in the region back to normalcy soon.

 Meanwhile, Richard said that the damages moved them and they were emotionally struck by the sufferings of the people. They also appreciated the relief work carried out by the state government and the precautionary measures taken by the government machinery.