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Coimbatore: DMK men on Friday lodged a complaint against AIADMK MLAs for ‘intimidating’ district collector G S Sameeran for not raising up from his chair to receive their petition.
Thalapathy Murugesan, a DMK functionary, said they were shocked to see the video of AIADMK MLAs intimidating the collector, who is the first citizen of a district. “If this is the attitude of AIADMK men when not in power, imagine the plight of the officials when they were in power.”
In the complaint, he said AIADMK MLAs, including S P Velumani, Pollachi Jayaraman and A K Selvaraj, had met the collector on Thursday, when they used disrespectful and intimidating words. “They had threatened him as well,” he said.
Officials go on casual leave
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Virudhunagar
Regular work in taluk offices and other revenue offices in this district suffered as 50% members of Tamil Nadu Revenue Officers Association went on a mass casual leave on Wednesday.
Out of 400-odd posts, over 200 workers in various cadres like office assistant, typist, junior assistant, revenue inspector, deputy tahsildar and tahsildar abstained from work. The association has been demanding steps to fill up vacancies.
“We have a huge number of vacancies in the posts of office assistant, record clerks, watchman,” said TNROA district secretary, C. Kannan.
Revenue Department offices being custodians for various important files and goods meant for distribution among people under various welfare schemes. Except for two offices, none of the offices have watchman to protect these documents and valuables. With no record clerks and office assistants, the movement of files suffers delay. “We are not ask