Rain damages 12 houses in Chinnarpathi tribal colony

Coimbatore: As many as 12 thatched houses were damaged in rain at Chinnarpathi tribal settlement in Anamalai Tiger Reserve on Friday. No one was injured in the incident. Residents were shifted to a temple hall about a kilometre away from the settlement on Saturday morning.
As many as 40 families are residing in the settlement, said V S Paramasivam, district president of Tamil Nadu Tribal People Association. “Almost all of them stay in temporary sheds. As the shelters are in bad shape, when it began to rain last night, most of them spent the night in nearby caves. They returned in the morning to find the damaged shelters,” he said.
Officials from the revenue and forest department rushed to the spot and shifted the victims to a temple hall.
“It is high time the district administration takes steps to construct concrete houses in tribal settlements. It has been a long-pending demand,” Paramasivam added. TNN