Nannilam on the boil over ONGC move
Registering protest:A road in Nannilam wears a deserted look on Friday.
Plan for hydrocarbon exploration at village has traders downing shutters
Deeply agitated over the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’s reported
move to explore hydrocarbons in their neighbourhood, residents and
shopkeepers of Nannilam and six other villages in Tiruvarur district
resorted to a hartal on Friday.
All shops remained shut during the day and people barely came out for any activity in what was reflective of their collective sentiment against the proposed ONGC move.
After it came to light that the ONGC planned venturing into hydrocarbon exploration at Thennanjar village near Nannilam in Tiruvarur district, people of the region vehemently opposed the exploration plan saying the ecology of the region would be irreversibly affected.
To register their collective protest, people of Nannilam, Andipandal, Sannanallur, Mappillai Kuppam, Achuthamangalam, Vazhkkai and Panangudi villages staged a hartal and traders shut their shops in the villages.
Autorickshaws and taxis remained off roads while the advocates practising at the Nannilam court boycotted hearings scheduled for the day.
Coordinator of the All Farmers Federation of Tamil Nadu P.R. Pandian tried to proceed to the proposed site of ONGC activity but the police prevented him and his supporters.
They resented the manner in which the ONGC was pushing through the project “without heeding public opinion and the manner in which the governmental agencies were brazenly supporting” the ONGC works much to the chagrin of the public in the seven villages.
Mr. Pandian, as also sections of youth in Nannilam, alleged that the ONGC had given the go-by to procedures and legal requirements.
All shops remained shut during the day and people barely came out for any activity in what was reflective of their collective sentiment against the proposed ONGC move.
After it came to light that the ONGC planned venturing into hydrocarbon exploration at Thennanjar village near Nannilam in Tiruvarur district, people of the region vehemently opposed the exploration plan saying the ecology of the region would be irreversibly affected.
To register their collective protest, people of Nannilam, Andipandal, Sannanallur, Mappillai Kuppam, Achuthamangalam, Vazhkkai and Panangudi villages staged a hartal and traders shut their shops in the villages.
Autorickshaws and taxis remained off roads while the advocates practising at the Nannilam court boycotted hearings scheduled for the day.
Coordinator of the All Farmers Federation of Tamil Nadu P.R. Pandian tried to proceed to the proposed site of ONGC activity but the police prevented him and his supporters.
They resented the manner in which the ONGC was pushing through the project “without heeding public opinion and the manner in which the governmental agencies were brazenly supporting” the ONGC works much to the chagrin of the public in the seven villages.
Mr. Pandian, as also sections of youth in Nannilam, alleged that the ONGC had given the go-by to procedures and legal requirements.
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