Workers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) blocked the Tirupattur-Tiruvannamalai Main Road and laid siege to a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) bus on Wednesday for denying work under the scheme in the village.
Police said it was around 9 a.m when about 70 workers blocked the stretch after K. Amirthammal, president of Pasalikuttai village, allegedly ordered them not to come for work under the scheme after they failed to attend the gram sabha meeting held in the village on Tuesday to mark the Independence Day. When the workers turned up for work on Wednesday, they were asked to go away.
