More projects for Srirangam: Minister

Minister for school education, sports and youth welfare N R Sivapathy on Saturday said chief minister J Jayalithaa was inclined to launch more schemes in Srirangam constituency in the remaining four years of the current tenure. But he did not specify what the schemes would be. However, Sivapathy said more factories would be constructed in the CM's constituency so that "each and everyone in Srirangam constituency gets employment in the near future."

Sivapathy, accompanied by Tiruchirappalli (East) MLA R Manoharan and district collector Jayashree Muralidharan, interacted with Kulumani village panchayat people around 11.30 am in order to distribute four goats each to 91 beneficiaries. A total of 364 goats cost the exchequer Rs 11.37 lakh. According to assistant director of animal husbandry, C Sundar Raj, the annual target of distributing 16,356 goats to 4,089 beneficiaries spread over 59 hamlets in Tiruchirapalli district for the 2011-12 financial year had been reached in five months. In the current financial year of 2012-13, as many as 7,140 goats had already been distributed to 1,785 beneficiaries spread over 25 villages. These goats had given birth to 240 calves this year alone, and these goats could be sold by beneficiaries.

Sivapathy said that as a result of distributing goats to the poor, the district had contributed 2,000 more litres of milk to Aavin. The district was fast moving towards achieving a White Revolution, he claimed. "You the people of the CM's constituency are blessed," Sivapathy said.

R Manoharan in said there would be a new scheme every month in the Srirangam constituency, and the same would be successfully emulated in other parts of the district and then the state. District collector Jayashree Muralidharan warned the beneficiaries against selling goats that were already branded by the government, but said they were free to breed them.