‘Improve basic amenities in Valparai tribal settlements’

CPI(M) submits petition at weekly grievances redress meeting

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI(M)) has urged the Coimbatore district administration to improve basic amenities in the tribal settlements in Valparai.

In a petition submitted at the weekly grievances redress meeting on Monday, the Valparai unit’s secretary P. Paramasivam claimed that the tribal settlements saw no developments in the last 10 years. He wanted the administration to ask the local officials to recognise the need for roads connecting the estates where the tribal people worked and their settlements. There was a need to build roads at various places for two to five km. The administration should upgrade the people’s skill in using different materials as alternatives to plastics and provide them a place to sell their goods. It should also implement the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme.