Kids who lost parents to Kallakurichi hooch tragedy finally get allowance

The 38 children who lost one or both their parents in the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy last year, who have not received the monthly allowance announced by the Tamil Nadu government for the past few months, were credited with the pending amount in three hours after this newspaper brought the issue to the notice of the government.

- Krithika Srinivasan & Subashini Vijayakumar @ Kallakurichi/Chennai

When TNIE visited Karunapuram, which accounted for 38 of the 69 people who died in the tragedy this week last year, it learnt that many of the affected children had not received the monthly allowance.

According to the government, four children had lost both their parents while 34 lost one of their parents. The state government had announced a monthly allowance of ₹5,000 each for the four children, and ₹4,000 each for the 34 others. The allowances will be credited until the children turn 18, the government had said.