Commissioner visits refugee camps

Commissioner for Sri Lankan Refugees Rehabilitation Jacinta Lazarus visited the inmates of two refugee camps on Tuesday. Accompanied by Collector S. Gopala Sundararaj, Ms. Jacinta visited the refugee

Commissioner for Sri Lankan Refugees Rehabilitation Jacinta Lazarus visited the inmates of two refugee camps on Tuesday. Accompanied by Collector S. Gopala Sundararaj, Ms. Jacinta visited the refugee camps at Boganallur in Kadayanallur taluk and Kalappaakulam under Sankarankovil taluk. While the refugee camp in Boganallur has 121 families with 378 persons, the Kalappaakulam camp houses 49 families with 136 persons. After inspecting their houses, Ms. Jacinta also interacted with the residents to ascertain the facilities such as toilets, drinking water, maintenance of their houses, employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, old age pension, monthly assistance to the widows and physically challenged, marriage assistance to women etc.