The Executive Officer (E.O) and the sanitary supervisor of the Chengam town panchayat in Tiruvannamalai district on Thursday, were issued with show-cause notices by the Assistant Director In-charge, Directorate of Town Panchayats (Vellore region), after a sanitary worker cleaned an open sewage drain in the town, with his bare hands a day ago, on Wednesday, July 19, 2023.
The show-cause notices seek a written explanation from the concerned officials within three days, failing which further action will be taken against them. The executive officer in-charge, S. Uma Maheshwari, and the sanitary supervisor A. Srinivasan, received the notices from the Directorate of Town Panchayats.
“We have sought a detailed report from the officials of the town panchayat for not monitoring such desilting work in clogged drains done by sanitary workers,” C. Hamsa, Assistant Director In-charge, Directorate of Town Panchayat (Vellore region), told The Hindu.
