Madurai Collector M.S. Sangeetha at the weekly grievance meet in Madurai on Monday.
| Photo Credit: G. MOORTHY
The family members of the people who drowned in the Vaigai river during the Chithirai festival this year have petitioned Collector M.S. Sangeetha for help on Monday at the weekly grievance meet held at the Madurai Collectorate.
In the petition, they said that they had lost their loved one who was an earning member of the family and that they were not able to make the ends meet. They sought appropriate compensation from the State government.
On May 5, bodies of three persons were retrieved from the water at a check dam across the Vaigai river a few metres from the venue where the ritual of Lord Kallazhagar entering the river was held.