Monday, November 30, 2015

Jaya inclinations Modi to get TN anglers discharged from Lanka

Hours after the Sri Lankan Navy captured eight Tamil Nadu anglers and grabbed their two vessels, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa encouraged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to secure the arrival of an aggregate of 37 anglers and 55 water crafts, including those held today.

Expressing that eight anglers had set out for angling in two motorized water crafts from Ramanathapuram and Pudukkottai regions, she said they were secured by the Sri Lankan Navy in the early hours of today.
"The rehashed endeavors by the Sri Lankan Navy to keep the activity of the customary rights by worries,



captures and attacks should be conveyed to an end through coordinated endeavors by the Government of India," she said in a letter to Modi.

"Might I ask for you to proactively start a fitting arrangement of activities that will realize a changeless answer for this delicate issue," she said.

She emphasized her interest for a help bundle of Rs 1,520 crore with a repeating award of Rs 10 crore for each annum for support digging from the Center for remote ocean angling and framework.

Communicating anguish over the Sri Lankan "technique" of not discharging the captured water crafts and angling apparatus even after anglers' discharge, she said it "has seriously debilitated the method for job of anglers, bringing on incredible disappointment among them."

"This is likewise an issue which must be determined immediately, given the colossal danger of decay of the angling vessels and apparatus which lie unattended."

She likewise asked for Modi to assist the arrival of four Indian anglers and their mechanized specialty which floated to the Sri Lankan shores on November 8 because of mechanical disappointment and still stay stranded there. (PTI)