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Time of India
5 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Ungaludan Stalin kicks off today; redressal in 45 days
Chennai: In a state-wide push to take govt services to the people, Chief Minister M K Stalin will launch the 'Ungaludan Stalin' (Stalin With You) doorstep outreach and grievance redressal initiative from Chidambaram in Cuddalore district on Tuesday. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now A new 'Ungaludan Stalin' website will go live on Tuesday, enabling users to check camp schedules, petition status, and resolution timelines. A digital tracking system will record each petition's details, who filed it, how long it has been pending, and what action was taken. "Petitions must be resolved within 45 days. If unresolved or if the response is unsatisfactory, people can reopen them. Departments will be pulled up for delays," revenue secretary P Amudha said. In the city, the camps will be held in Madhavaram, Tondiarpet, Thiru Vi Ka Nagar, Teynampet, Valasaravakkam, and Adyar. The campaign, which will run till Nov, aims to bring over 40 essential services closer to residents through door-to-door drives and local grievance redressal camps. Camps will be held from Tuesday to Friday every week, with each district hosting six camps. A focused action phase is planned from July 15 through Aug. "This is based on the chief minister's vision that people should not travel far to access services. The govt should reach them," said Amudha. Over one lakh trained volunteers have been deployed across the state—6,832 in rural areas and the rest in urban locations—to visit homes, inform residents about the camps, and help them gather necessary documents. All district collectors and nodal officers have been trained to implement the drive. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now "The services covered include patta changes, electricity and ration card name transfers, community and income certificates, property tax revisions, and inclusion of left-out beneficiaries in welfare schemes such as the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai," she said. In the first phase, 109 camps will be held from July 15 to August 14, with six camps organised daily across different zones. Each camp will run from 9 am to 3 pm. Volunteers will go door to door seven days in advance to distribute application forms and awareness kits about the 43 services available from 13 departments. Applications submitted will be processed within 45 days. The initiative builds on the Muthalvarin Mugavari scheme, under which 1.05 crore petitions were received since 2021, with 1.01 crore resolved.
New Indian Express
11-07-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Contempt of court: Five IAS officers appear in Madras High Court, seek apology
CHENNAI: Five IAS officers, including three senior officers, of the state government appeared before the first bench of the Madras High Court led by Chief Justice KR Shriram on Thursday in connection with a contempt of court case and sought unconditional apology. The court had pulled up the officials for disobeying its orders to relocate a school run by a Christian institution from a land belonging to the Devanatha Swamy Temple at Koothapakkam village in Cuddalore district. As per an order of the court, the officers — P Amudha, who is presently Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue Department; S Madumathi, Secretary, Differently-Abled Welfare Department; B Chandra Mohan, Principal Secretary, School Education Department; PN Sridhar, Commissioner, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR & CE) Department; and Sibi Adithya Senthil Kumar (Cuddalore Collector) — along with two other officers of HR & CE Department appeared before the court on Thursday. They apologised to the HC for failing to comply with the order to relocate St. Joseph Matriculation Higher Secondary School functioning at Koothapakkam from the temple land. The court accepted their submission. School's counsel says allotted site lacks infra, located near quarries The HC action follows a contempt petition filed by S Vinoth Raghavendran, state secretary of BJP's Spiritual and Temple Development Wing, seeking action against the officers for not obeying the court orders. Regarding the relocation of the school, Additional Advocate General J Ravindran informed the court that 4.73 acres of land was already allotted to the school at Bhuvanagiri Taluk in Cuddalore district. However, senior counsel Father Xavier Arul Raj, representing the school, submitted that the land was not suitable for running school as the site lacked infrastructure facilities like roads, and quarries are being operated around the place. He wanted the court to direct the government to allot land within 5-km radius of the school. The bench directed the school management to submit a fresh representation to the government for allotment of alternative site. A division bench in 2024 had granted six-month time to the HR&CE department to comply with another order to provide land to the school at an alternative site at Bhuvanagiri Taluk for shifting the institution. Alleging inaction, the petitioner filed the contempt plea. Madras HC recalls Rs 1 lakh fine order Chennai: The Madras HC recalled an order imposing Rs 1 lakh cost on J Kumaragurubaran, Chennai Corporation Commissioner, for disobeying order to crack down on building plan violations after the official appeared before the court and tendered apology
