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CPI(M) alleges irregularities alleged in GHMC
The Hindu
Outsourced workers dismissed to accommodate kin of workers in the Mayor’s household, says party
Allegations of irregularities have been levelled against GHMC officials with regard to employment of outsourced workers in sanitation wing, and of misuse of power against Mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi. City central committee of CPI(M) issued a statement on Monday, seeking enquiry into the irregularities. According to the allegations, supported by documentary evidence, three persons — two sanitation workers and a sanitation field assistant — have been removed from their duties with the “devious motive of employing the kin of workers in the Mayor’s household”. Sanitation worker V. Bharathi and her daughter and co-worker Rama Devi could not attend duties for close to a month as the former had been hospitalised in April due to COVID-19 infection, the note said. When they tried to report back to duty, officials told them that they had been removed, along with the SFA Saibaba, the party’s city secretary M.Srinivas alleged, demanding their reinstatement.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.