Will implement SC order on stray dogs across state: Nehru
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Trichy: The Supreme Court's direction to remove stray dogs from streets and keep them in shelters will be implemented across Tamil Nadu, municipal administration minister K N Nehru said in Trichy on Tuesday.
Replying to questions from reporters after launching Chief Minister's Thayumanavar scheme, he said there won't be any necessity to release dogs after vaccinating and sterilising them.
"Dog bite menace is becoming worrisome for us. This is a good opportunity for us. We will implement theorder in the corporations and across the state," he said. The minister particularly welcomed the part of the order that allows animal activists to be prosecuted for obstructing the drive.
"They have given an excellent order," he added.
To a question on the demand by protesting corporation sanitary workers in Chennai that Nehru should meet them, instead of HR&CE minister Sekarbabu, he said, "I had met and talked to the representatives for four days. At least 300 have returned to work." He denied that existing workers are being replaced by those from northern states. "We are removing the waste with the existing workers.
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However, we did not post anyone from outside the corporation," he said.
On DMK's poll promise to make sanitary workers permanent, the minister said it was the CM's call. "The CM has asked to do what is possible," he added. On the claim of his predecessor S P Velumani that 17,000 sanitary workers were made permanent during the AIADMK regime, he said, "The workers who were made permanent were not posted for sanitary work." Nehru flagged off vehicles carrying ration items from Uraiyur as part of the Thayumanavar scheme.
He also visited some houses, distributed the ration items, and interacted with the beneficiaries.
On the opposition parties' criticism that the DMK govt was implementing many promises in its last year, Nehru said, "The govt can implement poll promises only one by one. The CM has been implementing more than he assured."
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