
Sacked conservancy workers meet GCC Commissioner
The Hindu
Without a job for eight months, they are demanding reinstatement
Representatives of conservancy workers from Anna Nagar zone, who were terminated earlier this year, met Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi on Monday, following their sit-in protests last week. Around 500 conservancy workers from Anna Nagar zone, engaged under the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM), were terminated in January without notice. Since then, they have organised multiple protests demanding their reinstatement. Last week, a group of affected men and women held a sit-in protest inside the zonal office in Shenoy Nagar for three days, before they were evicted on Saturday after assurance by officials that they could meet the Commissioner on Monday.
Revenue quasi-judicial authorities now cannot go scot-free if they issue any orders with mala fide intentions with respect to government land. The government has initiated the process of disciplinary action against a few such authorities who allegedly pronounced orders with vested interests to favour those who encroached upon government land.

In a major move, decades-old encroachments around Perumal Teppam, belonging to Koodal Alagar Temple, on the busy Town Hall Road were removed on Monday. Under tight police security, Corporation authorities removed the makeshift shops and eateries around the tank in the presence of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department officials.