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Drumstick is cultivated on about 40,000 acres in Karur district | sicp

Drumstick is cultivated on about 40,000 acres in Karur district | sicp

Aravakurichi farmers continue to wait for cold storage facility

Drumsticks are cultivated at a farm in Karur district

Drumstick is cultivated on about 40,000 acres in Karur district

A 20-year-old demand of the drumstick farmers for establishing a cold storage in Aravakurichi is yet to be met.

Though most parties, including the AIADMK and the DMK have been promising to establish a cold storage exclusively for drumstick, the promise is yet to be fulfilled.

According to estimates, drumstick is cultivated on about 40,000 acres in Aravakurichi and nearby villages in Karur district. While a section of farmers grows drumstick as a garden crop, others raise it as a field crop.

Venjamangudalur, Esanatham, Ammapatti, Koththapalayam, Manalmedu, Palayam, Eesanathan, Pungapadi and Vellodu are among the major cultivating centres. Though Aravakurichi block is considered as rain shadow, farmers prefer to bring as many acres as possible under drumstick coverage as the soil suits well. Moreover, the crop can sustain severe drought.

Besides catering to the need of local consumers, traders send the famous ‘Aravakurichi drumstick’ to various States, including Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

On an average, 25 to 30 truckloads of drumstick are sent from Aravakurichi daily, particularly during summer.

Despite a good harvest during the current season, farmers feel that the price offered by traders is highly inadequate and it is the middlemen, who often get benefited.

In the absence of the cold storage, farmers clear the stock on day-to-day basis as they cannot afford to keep drumstick unsold.

Farmers said that they had raised the demand of establishing a cold storage for drumstick about 20 years ago. But, it is remains an election issue.

During the Assembly election in 2016, V. Senthil Balaji, who was the AIADMK nominee then and K.C. Palanisamy, the DMK nominee of the Aravakurichi constituency, promised to set up a cold storage.

They repeated the promise in the countermanded election held six months later. The promise has been made in the by-poll too now by the AIADMK nominee V.V. Senthilnathan and Mr. Senthil Balaji.

“If we have a cold storage facility, we can wait for one or two weeks to get better price for drumstick. It will be a boost for both farmers and traders,” says K. Balu, a drumstick farmer of Aravakurichi.

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Tihar jail inmates' lunch time

Ambulance and jail van at the exterior of the prison. Inmates preparing food in the large kitchen. Chapattis or rotis for lunch in Tihar Jail being prepared from atta with belans and with bare hands, by inmates.

The largest compound of prisons in South Asia, Tihar Jail is also known as Tihar and has a brand of their own by the name of TJ's! It is located around 7 km away from Chanakya Puri, west of New Delhi, India at Tihar village. The nearby area is called Hari Nagar. It is not just a prison but also a Correctional Institution. Its main objective is to provide useful skills, and educate the inhabitants so as to make them normal members of society. The prison is meant to strengthen the inmates' desire to improve by boosting their self esteem.

The inmates also manufacture products under the brand name of Tihar or TJ's. It was run by the State of Punjab until 1966 and was a maximum security prison but later the control was transferred to National Capital Territory of Delhi. Additional facilities were constructed in 1984 and it became the Tihar Prison.

The most liked Inspector General of the Tihar was Kiran Bedi who under her jurisdiction introduced a number of prison reforms, including changing the name to Tihar Ashram. Vipassana, a meditation program for both staff and inmates was also initiated by her. The Prison has yielded an inmate who has passed the Indian Administrative Service civil service examinations.

The largest compound of prisons in South Asia, Tihar Jail is also known as Tihar. It is located around 7 km away from Chanakya Puri, west of New Delhi, India at Tihar village. The nearby area is called Hari Nagar.It is not just a prison but also a Correctional Institution. Its main objective is to provide useful skills, and educate them so as to make them normal members of the society. The prison is meant to strengthen the inmates' desire to improve by boosting their self esteem.

The inmates also manufacture products under the brand name of Tihar. It was run by the State of Punjab until 1966 and was a maximum security prison but later the control was transferred to National Capital Territory of Delhi. Additional facilities were constructed in 1984 and it became the Tihar Prison.

The most liked Inspector General of the Tihar was Kiran Bedi who under her jurisdiction introduced a number of prison reforms, including changing the name to Tihar Ashram. Vipassana, a meditation program for both staff and inmates was also initiated by her. The Prison has yielded an inmate who has passed the Indian Administrative Service civil service examinations.

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