20 out of 142 petitions disposed of
The Hindu
TIRUNELVELI
TIRUNELVELI
Special grievance meet, ‘Makkalai Thaedi Mayor’ for wards 1, 2, 13 and 14, all under Thatchanallur Zone of Tirunelveli Corporation, was held at the urban civic body’s tax collection centre near Thatchanallur Flyover on Friday.
Mayor P.M. Saravanan, Deputy Mayor K.R. Raju and Corporation Commissioner V. Sivakrishnamurthy received 142 petitions seeking old age pension, name transfer for drinking water connection and property tax, building plan approval, copy of building plan, tax fixation, vacant land tax fixation, new drinking water connection and permission to set up Aavin milk parlour.
Of this, 20 petitions – seven for name transfer of drinking water connection, two for name transfer of property tax, three for vacant land tax, five for drinking water connection and three for building plan approval – were cleared immediately.
When the Mayor inspected the overhead tanks near the tax collection centre near the Azhaganeri panchayat union primary school and at Ananthapuram, he instructed the officials to carry out repairs in the water tanks and planted tree saplings near the water tanks.
Executive Engineer L.K. Bhaskar and Assistant Commissioner (In-Charge), Thatchanallur Lenin were present.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.