Namakkal District Magistrate Shreya P. Singh at the complaint meeting on Monday. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Weekly Grievance Redressal Day was celebrated at Salem and Namakkal Collectorates on Monday.
In Salem, District Revenue Officer P. Menaha presided over the meeting and received the petitions.
In total, the DRO received 264 petitions, including those seeking land lease, transfer of lease, community certificate, job opportunities, bank loans, education loans, financial assistance, roads, drinking water and street light facilities.
The DRO also received 18 petitions from Persons with Disabilities (PWD) and directed the concerned authorities to resolve the grievance within stipulated time. The DRO also distributed welfare assistance to 39 disabled beneficiaries.
The Sand Lorry Owners’ Association submitted a petition. In the petition, he alleges that small traders are selling M-sand on the roadside.
Recently, the officials of the mining department had issued notices to the traders alleging that they were selling construction material by occupying the land. Therefore, the authorities should allow small traders to sell M-sand and save their livelihood, he added in the petition.
Similarly, relatives and family members of late Indian Army soldier Siddhan of Sameekenpatti, who was martyred in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, came to the Salem Collectorate and submitted a petition.
Later, he knelt down in front of the collectorate and protested. He claimed that after Siddhan’s death during the war, the government had allotted him 2.92 acres of land in Sameekenpatti 51 years ago. But even after pleading several times, the patta of that land was not given. He alleged that the government is now trying to acquire that land.
Similarly, Collector Shreya P. Singh presided over the Grievance Redressal Day organized at Namakkal Collectorate and received petitions from the public. The Collector received a total of 480 petitions.