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A town with much scope for development
The Hindu
Colachel residents say they are always sidelined
After a government medical college hospital was established at Asaripallam near Nagercoil, Colachel residents hoped that the importance given to Kottar Government Hospital would be shifted to their GH. But Thuckalay was preferred to Colachel with a 78-year-old hospital, much to their dismay.
A resident, R. Sateesh Bharathi, who is contesting the election, said when seriously injured fishermen were brought ashore or when emergencies arose, the patients had to be rushed all the way to inland Thuckalay. The Colachel GH must be developed as a multi-speciality hospital with facilities for post mortem, surgeries and other medical care. “Since our town comes under Kalkulam taluk, we want a separate taluk so that our demands can be better represented through the tahsildar,” he said.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.