Many residents who had waited for the weekend to get application forms for flood relief at local fair price shops were disappointed as they were told that the deadline was over for the same.
Ganesh, a resident of Soolaima Nagar in Thoraipakkam, said that the shopkeeper at his fair price shop told him to go to the Zonal office of the Greater Chennai Corporation. “I was busy this whole week, so I waited for Saturday. When I went to the corporation office, they told me they had no role in distributing application forms,” he said.
A resident of Periyar Nagar, who had moved to Anna Nagar as their home got flooded, had visited their fair price shop and was told that the time for submitting application form was over. “We waited for the weekend to go to the shop. We were affected but won’t be getting any compensation,” said the senior citizen, who did not want to be named.
