Make all COVID-19 government orders available online, petitions litigant
The Hindu
The litigant also wanted police personnel to be paid one month’s salary towards a risk allowance
A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the State government to instruct its departments and undertakings to upload and update all government orders, instructions, memorandums and circulars related to COVID-19 and the consequent lockdown on the government’s website so that people do not have to rely upon unauthenticated information circulated on the social media. Advocate B. Ramkumar Adityan of Thoothukudi has filed the case claiming that neither the government’s official website nor the special website https://stopcorona.tn.gov.in/ contained all government orders and circulars issued by the Revenue and Disaster Management Department, the Police Department, the Tourism and Culture Department and a host of other government departments in connection with COVID-19.
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