Patil reviews tsunami rehabilitation programmes in TN

Chennai, Jan 20 (UNI) Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today reviewed the tsunami rehabilitation programmes in Tamil Nadu.

The review meeting assumes significance following a controversy that tsunami victims were suffering from abject poverty, forcing them to eke out a living by selling their kidneys.

Union Ministers K Reghupathy and State Minister I Periasamy and other officials also attended the meeting held at Raj Bhavan.

Earlier, Mr Patil called on Tamil Nadu Governor S S Barnala.

Raj Bhavan sources described the meeting as a courtesy call.

Mr Patil would participate in a function got up by Chennai Citizen's Conclave tomorrow to felicitate Spiritual leader Satya Sai Baba for taking up the strengthening works of the Kandaleru-Poondi canal to bring Krishna River water to Chennai City.

The Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra and Governors of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka would also participate in the function.

UNI