May be some of you
would have visited this place, probing to buy a good piece of land, which would
appreciate thrice or more in another decade or less. On the GST road, a few kilometres away from
Tambaram lies – Urapakkam, officially belonging to Kanchipuram district. Touted as a fast-growing locality among the
southern suburbs on the busy National Highway 45, the place with pincode 603202
has been devoured by real estate agents.
It would be a similar tale be it Urapakkam, Vandalur, Guduvanchery,
Singaperumalkoil or more. Urapakkam is
served by the Urapakkam railway station of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network
and has two bus stops. In someways it is
gate way to the city.
Chennai rains
floored many, spared none – levelling many things. Among the worst affected places is many parts
of Urapakkam. This morning, our team
from SYMA [Srinivas Youngmens Association] descended here – in the past
fortnight our VP, Mr SR Parthasarathi has made many sorties, assessed the
situation and identified the affected people with the help of local Welfare
association. After our dispensation at
Chennai High School, Kottur, it was a different experience at Urapakkam, where
people narrated their tale of woes – water entry, loss of property, entry of
snakes and other creatures in to houses and more melancholy.
SYMA team with
special mention of Seshadri @ Durai, TJR, Sudarshan and others worked overtime,
preparing special relief kits that consisted of 5
kgs of rice; 1 kg of 3 dhall; 1 ltr of Goldwinner oil, many utensils including timber,
tamarind, sugar, soap & detergents; dhoties and sarees [costing around
Rs.1850 each] ~ today morning we distributed these kits to more than 200
families who queued up and received them without melee. The distribution took
place at Senthamizh Salai 2nd Street, Selvaraj Nagar, Urapakkam.
Around
80 school bags too were distributed.
SYMA on this occasion, thanks all its donors, well-wishers and
volunteers.
With regards – S. Sampathkumar
Secretary, SYMA [3rd Jan 2016]
