Transgenders affiliated to the Amuthasurabhi Transgenders’ Welfare Association have sought the district administration's support in getting tenements built by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board.
The petitioners, who represented their demand at the weekly grievance day meeting on Monday, said that for the past three years they had been petitioning the Board for allotment of houses. When they last approached the Board officials on July 20, 2018 with their third petition, they were told that they would be allotted houses if they were to get an order from the district administration officials.
There were 32 of them in the association and the district administration would do well to direct the Board or recommend their case to the Board for allotment of houses, the transgenders demanded.
Auto drivers’ allegation
Autorickshaw drivers affiliated to the CITU and AITUC trade unions on Monday petitioned the district administration seeking an end to interference by drivers affiliated to the ruling party in Kalapatti.
At the weekly grievance day meeting at the Collectorate, the drivers said that there were over 120 autorickshaw and van drivers who functioned out of vehicle stands from SITRA junction to Saravanampatti Junction on the Kalapatti Road.
They had been operating vehicles for the past 15 years and conducting their business by self-regulation by forming unions and getting approval from the local police authorities.To curtail their business, the ruling party men, at the instance of Transport Department officials, had started plying additional buses on Kalapatti Road.
Residents demand title deeds
A few residents of Nagarajapuram, near Pillaiyarpuram in Kurichi, petitioned the district administration officials at the weekly grievance meeting on Monday demanding title deeds for the portion of the government land where they had constructed houses. The residents said that many among them had got title deeds and power connection in phases over the years.
A few days ago, an official of the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board arrived at their place and threatened to evict them. They had been living at the place for over 10 years and their livelihood would be severely affected if they were to be evicted. The administration would therefore do well to grant title deeds to the 200 residents who lived on government land without documents, the petitioners said.