‘Release funds for conducting ‘Ungaludan Stalin' camps and don't force panchayat heads to bear expenses'
The 'Ungaludan Stalin' camps are being organised across Tamil Nadu to redress the grievances of the public by providing solutions reportedly within 45 days to the petitions being received during these camps. After Chief Minister M.K. Stalin launched this scheme on July 15 last, Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M. Appavu inaugurated it in Tirunelveli Town.
A total of 255 camps would be organised in Tirunelveli district including the areas falling under the jurisdiction of the Tirunelveli Corporation, three municipalities – Kalakkad, Ambasamudram and Vickramasingapuram, 17 town panchayats, and 204 village panchayats in the district till October 7.
In urban areas, officials attached to 13 government departments offering 43 services will participate while officials from 15 departments will be present in the camps to be held in rural areas for attending the grievances pertaining to 45 services.
Since the petitioners have to submit their applications in prescribed format, the applications and awareness pamphlets are being distributed through door-to-door campaign by the volunteers even as 114 supervisors are monitoring and coordinating this exercise.
Aadhar booths, police department's 'May I help you?' booths, preliminary screening health booths by the Public Health Department, E-seva centre are also be present in these camps.
'The village panchayats are being told to bear the expenses of the camps being organised in their areas. Hence, each village panchayat have to spend around ₹1.50 lakh for one camp. As only a few village panchayats are wealthy enough to meet this expense, the panchayat presidents are forced to bear this expense of ₹1.50 lakh, which encourage them to compensate this expense through some other unfair means. Hence, we are staging demonstration to urge the Tamil Nadu government for allocating sufficient funds for organising 'Ungaludan Stalin' camps,' said M. Veerbathiran, executive committee member of TNRDOA.
Similar demonstrations were organised in every block of the district, the TNRDOA officials said.
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