Atul Anand appointed Commissioner of Labour
The Hindu
Karunakaran is Commissioner of Economics and Statistics
The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday appointed M. Karunakaran as the Commissioner of Economics and Statistics. It transferred Atul Anand, Principal Secretary/Commissioner of Economics and Statistics, and posted him as Principal Secretary/Commissioner of Labour in place of C. Munianathan, who has been appointed as member of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission. K.S. Palaniswamy, Additional Commissioner of Land Administration, has been transferred and posted as the Commissioner of Fisheries in place of M. Karunakaran.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.