SALEM: Members of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) staged a novel protest by attempting to build an integrated sanitary complex near the Salem Corporation on Monday urging it to provide toilet facilities to the residents of Meiyanur and Kuttatehru areas in the city.
The members brought a brick and one kg of cement and registered their protest by symbolically constructing a complex near the Corporation office.
The members said that the Corporation had not provided sanitary complexes to the people living in Meiyanur in 18th division, Chinneri Vayalkadu in 24th division and Kuttatheru in 4th division.
The residents, particularly those living under the below the poverty line, had to undergo untold miseries. Despite repeated reminders to the Corporation, no effort was taken to redress the grievances of the locals here.
“It is an ordeal for us daily,” said a woman resident of the area.
They also pointed out that the sanitary complex constructed at Ammasi Nagar in 23rd division was not in use. The complex was built recently after a series of agitations by the people. The Corporation took up the project and after having completed it, never permitted the residents to use it. Though many representations had been made, the civic body remained silent on the issue.
Hence to highlight these issues, the DYFI (Urban West) organised the agitation in which the members brought the building materials. V Bharathi Kannan, DYFI’s Urban president and others participated.
In another agitation, cadres of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) staged a demonstration near the Collectorate urging the Corporation to provide basic amenities to the people living in MGR Nagars and Periyar Nagars in wards 2, 5, 8, 12, 13, 28, 37, 44, 50 and 51.
(Courtesy : The Hindu)
