Port Blair, Jan 07: Mr. Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Member of Parliament, A&N Islands has requested the Lt. Governor, A&N Islands to resolve issue urgently regarding re-settlement/shifting package of original 47 repatriated Sri Lankan Tamil settlers family from Katchal (Tribal area) to Non-Tribal area which is pending with the Administration since last 25 years for which they are continuously pressing.
However, the Administration has already initiated the process for their resettlement package but the same is not finalized so far. So aggrieved for the delay, they started agitation by sitting relay hunger strike at Katchal w.e.f 18.11.2020 for which 47 days is going on now. Moreover, the conditions of the rubber plantation quarters where their family residing there are in a dilapidated condition and beyond repairable.
Apart from this, the Tribal peoples also continuously demand to evacuate these families from their Tribal area in view of PAT Regulation.
Therefore, the MP requests the Lt. Governor to look into the matter personally for resolution of their long pending demands urgently in order to get culminate their relay hunger strike going on in the Tribal area since 18.11.2020.
