Wayanad township beneficiary list beset with confusion

DDMA releases a list of 402 beneficiaries in Attamala, Mundakkai and Chooralmala; over 100 families excluded, alleges action council

- LESLY JOSEPH @Kalpetta

Even a year after the Mundakkai-Chooralmala landslides, the beneficiaries list for the government township being built to house the survivors remains shrouded in confusion. With protests to boot.

The District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has released a list of 402 beneficiaries in Attamala, Mundakkai and Chooralmala wards of Meppadi panchayat for the township coming up at Elstone Estate in Kalpetta.

At the same time, the representatives of the action councils for the disaster-affected said that 10 families in Attamala, around 60 in Mundakkai, and around 50 in Chooralmala were excluded despite being eligible for inclusion in the list.

Complaints in that regard have risen from among those living near the red zone—deemed uninhabitable by the John Mathai Committee, those with partially damaged but isolated houses, and those with houses intact but roads leading to the area falling in the red zone.