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A case of Child – Running by Missionaries in Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu
A total of seventy-six boys from Assam and Manipur were rescued from the Bedesta Blessing Home, an unregistered children’s home, in Kanyakumari district on January 24. The Home, run by the Roman Catholic missionaries, lacked both adequate infrastructure and enough food to feed the children, officials said. The rescued children are part of 150 children brought to Chennai by a missionary a few years back, but were given away to different homes – one in Bangalore and the other in Kanyakumari – due to inadequate funds to run the home, officials said. Meanwhile, 70 girls from the Bedesta Blessing Home were reported missing the same day that the raid was conducted. The police as well as the Social Defence departments are now in probing activities of the child-running gang.
Gesture of Madhya Pradesh BJP government:
340 Tsunami-hit families of Tamilnadu get permanent houses
Madhya Pradesh government has helped 340 families of Keechankuppam village, Nagapatinam district, hit by Tsunami, live in permenant houses. The beneficiaries received keys for their permanent houses built by Seva Bharati, Tamilnadu at the hands of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivaraj Singh Chauhan on january 23 at a simple function in the once devastated village in Tamilnadu. The Home and Environment Minister of Madhya Pradesh Sri Jayant Mallayya presided over the meeting. Sri Rama Rajasekar, Secretary, Seva Bharathi, Tamilnadu, read out the report on activities of Seva Bharati in Tamilnadu. Minister of state for Finance, Government of India Sri S S Palanimanickkam, Tamilnadu Minister for Dairy Department Sri U Mathivannan were the special guests. Ex-BJP state President Sri L Ganesan, MLA V Marimuthu, Seva Bharati, Tamilnadu president Sri Durai Shankarji, municipal Councillor of Nagapatinam Sri N Gauthaman were also present on the occasion. District Collector Sri C Munianathan (IAS) delivered a vote of thanks.
