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NT Bureau
Chennai, Sept 22:
 

General secretary of South Indian Priests Community Welfare Trust Narasimha Aiyyar at a press conference in Chennai on Thursday.

        The South Indian Priests Community Welfare Trust, which is holding its 49th conference in Kancheepuram today, has demanded the State government to come out with a welfare board considering the plight of thousands of priests.

        Briefing reporters here on Thursday, trust's general secretary Narasimha Aiyyar said priests, who had been in the profession for many decades now, were poverty-stricken, unemployed and lacking education and other basic amenities.

        Demanding insurance schemes like the one that the unorganised workers enjoy, Narasimha Aiyyar called for reservation in education and employment for them.

        He also said that without destructing the Ramar Sethu, the Sethu Samudram Channel Project should be implemented.