Eight years ago this day a tragedy of a
magnitude Tamil Nadu had seldom encountered struck its coast, when
Tsunami gobbled up human lives at will while leaving a trail of
destruction whose scars remain even today.
Many who had lost their loved ones
remembered their kin on the eighth anniversary today of the killer
Tsunami which caused widespread loss to life and property, especially in
Cuddalore and Nagapattiam.
Prayers were offered by relatives of the
deceased in these districts. A relatively lesser-known Japanese word,
Tsunami, had left a permanent scar when tidal waves sparked off by an
undersea quake in Indonesia rose to previously unfathomed heights,
causing wide-spread devastation in the state boasting of 1076 km long
coast-line.
In Chennai, candles were lit at the
famous Marina in respect to the victims of the tsunami. Tamil Nadu
accounted for nearly 7000 deaths in the 2004 tragedy. Relatives of those
who perished in Puducherry and Karaikal also paid homage at various
coastal villages here today.
Welfare Minister P Rajavelu paid floral
tributes at a remembrance day programme held in Pannithittu, a coastal
village that was among the fishing hamlets that bore the brunt of the
tsunami.
Representatives of various fishermen
associations held condolence meetings near the specially erected banners
near the sea shore and paid homage to those who were killed in the
tragedy.
A number of voluntary organisations
based in various states and also the Government of Maharashtra had come
forward to provide houses under the rehabilitation programmes in
Veerampattinam and a few other coastal hamlets here and in Karaikal.
Puducherry government acquired vast
stretch of sites in Kalapet and constructed houses for the
rehabilitation of the fishermen families who were rendered homeless in
the wake of the tragedy.
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