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Highlighting their problems through street show
January 9, 2017
A group of street performers today staged a show in front of the district collectorate highlighting the problems faced by them.
Accompanied by their traditional drums, sattai and salangai, the members, belonging to 17 families, presented their demands through a small show. Their demands included house with pattas and Government ID proofs.
“We have been living in Thadagam Road near Gandhi Park for more than 20 years. We have no government document including voter ID cards and ration cards,” said V. Meenakshi, one of the petitioners, after the show.
“Our profession has only helped us survive on a day-to-day basis. It has not helped us come up economically.
Unfortunately even our children are forced to perform with us sometimes. We do not want our children to follow our footsteps. We are finding difficult to get our children admitted in schools as we lack the required papers,” she added.
Later, the members submitted a petition to District Collector T.N. Hariharan.
