UDF panel holds sitting on Nelliampathy issue

The UDF subcommittee constituted to study various aspects of the Nelliampathy issue, with A N Rajan Babu as the new convenor, held a sitting for evidence and opinion collection here on Friday and veered around the view that court verdicts are of paramount importance in the issue and both ecological as well as farmers concerns have to be addressed.
 The committee will hold another sitting here on September 5.
 “The opinion of all concerned including the report presented by a team of UDF MLAs who had visited Nelliampathy will be taken into account.
 If necessary,the UDF sub-committee will pay another visit to Nelliampathy region,”Rajan Babu said, briefing the media after the sitting.