‘Makkalai Thedi Maruththuvam’ women volunteers seek regularisation of service

Around 100 'Makkalai Thedi Maruththuvam' women volunteers seek regularisation of service; physically challenged persons from Kovilpatti seek free house sites; DYFI members demand probe into financial irregularities in Pudur town panchayat; BJP members seek subsidised power to Puthiyampuththur garment units; action sought against officials who cut down mango trees in Srivaikundam; petition for repairing of road between Thatchar Street and Mattakkadai in Thoothukudi.

Seeking regularisation of their service, around 100 ‘Makkalai Thedi Maruththuvam’ women volunteers submitted petition to District Collector G. Lakshmipathi on Monday.

 The petitioners said they, who are working under the ‘Makkalai Thedi Maruththuvam’ scheme for the past two years, are being given the consolidated pay of ₹ 4,500 a month and the incentive of ₹ 1,000.

They said they had to bear travel expenses and internet charges for sending reports every day.

Besides bearing all these expenses, the government should regularise their service and fix the working hours, they said.

Free house sites sought

A group of physically challenged persons from Kovilpatti submitted a petition seeking free house sites. They said the petitioners, all belonging to below poverty line families, did not own house and hence, they were repeatedly submitting petitions to the Collector and other officials to press for this demand, but in vain.

Besides giving free house sites to the differently-abled persons of Kovilpatti taluk, it should be given to poor physically challenged persons in Ottapidaaram, Ettaiyapuram and Vilaathikulam taluks also, they said.