Ambattur zone conservancy workers stage protest
The Hindu
Allege lack of safety measures and increased workload
A group of conservancy workers from Ambattur zone of the Greater Chennai Corporation staged a protest at the zonal office on Monday, alleging lack of safety measures and increased workload.
All the protesters were engaged by the Corporation under the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM).
The workers, a majority of them women, alleged that they were not provided gloves, masks and other safety gear, particularly while doing waste segregation.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.