More than 1,200 sanitary workers, panchayat secretaries and block-level staff from Vellore, Ranipet, Tiruvannamalai and Tirupattur districts have been roped in for relief work in inundated areas of Greater Chennai Corporation limits at least for the next three days.
Officials of District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) who are coordinating logistics from these districts for relief works in Chennai and other affected areas, said that most of the sanitary workers and their superiors were allotted specific areas in Chennai and its outskirts to undertake relief works, including pumping out stagnated water, disinfection, garbage disposal and street-light repair works.
