Safai Karamchari Commission chairman visits Jipmer

He interacted with the community and took note of their grievances

M. Venkatesan, Chairman of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis, on Monday visited the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) and held detailed interactions with the safai karamchari community at the institution.

The visit was part of an exercise to study the socio-economic and living conditions of safai karamcharis and take stock of grievances or gaps in welfare measures from personal interactions and through representations.

In his briefing, Rakesh Aggarwal, Director of Jipmer, outlined the journey of the institution from a college of medicine set up by the French government in 1828 to its transfer to the Government of India, and the new campus that came up in 1964. It was directly under the Centre till 2008, after which it became an autonomous body with the status of Institution of National Importance through an Act of Parliament.