Thuraiyur has no tourism potential

The AIADMK and the DMK are similarly situated in the Thuraiyur (reserved) constituency, which is located near Pachmalai, which is part of the short-distance hills of the Eastern Ghats.

Located in the northwest of Tiruchi, the constituency has been the most backward for so long. Shortage of employment opportunities and acute drinking water shortages have been major electoral issues.

Despite Pachmalai and Puliancholai having immense potential for tab tourism potential, there is a strong challenge among voters that representatives and rules have failed to fill the eco-tourism initiative, although the forest department had built some infrastructure recently. Top visitors in Senguptapatti. There is hardly any industrial developmental activity in the constituency except for a few explosive units and rice mills.

Till the 2008 delimitation process, most of the constituencies in the existing Thuraiyur constituency were part of Uppiliapuram (Scheduled Tribes) constituency.

Uppiliapuram and Thuraiyur, Thuraiyur municipality and two Nagar Panchayats like Balakrishnanapatti and Uppiliapuram are in the constituency. It has a large population of Scheduled Tribes, who live in 49 remote villages around Vannadu, Kombai and Tenapurnadu of Pachmalai.

The people of the constituency mainly undertake agriculture and allied agricultural activities such as milking cattle, sheep, and goats. Shallots, maize and cotton are grown in parts of the constituency. Despite the difficult situation, absence of assured irrigation sources and frequent failure of monsoon, people work hard to meet both ends.

Tapioca is the main crop grown on Pachmalai and its foothills. It is estimated that farmers cultivate tapioca on about 3,000 hectares every year and cultivate more than 80% of tapioca in Tiruchi district. Almost all the tribes of Pachmalai are engaged in tapioca cultivation. Although this is an important livelihood opportunity for tribal farmers, many of them depend on how to fix tapioca prices.

It has been alleged that a group of sago industries in the neighboring state of Salem district always manages to keep prices low, leaving very little profit for the farmers. Farmers are raising the issue with elected representatives and the state government, claiming that middlemen and agents of the sago industry are fixing prices for tapioca according to their whites and fakirs. But no sign of solution is found in sight.

The high-intensity explosion in the Vetrivel explosive, which killed at least 20 people in 2016, is still among the electorate of the constituency. Many are still in the arms case against the move to reopen the explosive unit.

Although the Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage Board (TWAS) supplies water from the Kaveri River to 98 gram panchayats and nagar panchayats as well as residents of Thuraiiyur municipality, there are many complaints that they get water once in 7 to 10 days.

The current water scheme, designed in 2001 with a capacity to supply 3.12 million liters a day (MLD), is said to have become outdated with a growing population.

“Water scarcity has been a major electoral issue for so long. We get water once in 10 days. There is talk of establishing a new water scheme. But till now it can be worn.

Analysis of earlier elections shows that AIADMK has little advantage over its major rival, DMK. In the first election held in 2011 after the delimitation process in 2008, AIADMK candidate T. Indra Gandhi, DMK’s D.K. Defeated Parimala by a margin of 10,935 votes.

DMK candidate S. Stalin Kumar, in 2016, AIADMK’s A. Won Mwizi by a margin of 86868 votes. Prior to the delimitation process, the AIADMK won five times and the DMK three times in 1971 from the Uppiliapuram seat.

While the DMK has abandoned Mr. Stalinkumar, the AIADMK has given another chance to former MLA Ms. Indra Gandhi.

Soon after the announcement of the candidates, both Mr. Stalin Kumar and Ms. Indra Gandhi started their campaign. These two are familiar to the voters. Unlike the DMK candidate, the AIADMK candidate faces dissatisfaction after his candidature was opposed by a section of the AIADMK cadre. However, he is said to have won over the dissidents and primed for the challenge. By all indications, the constituency is poised for close combat.