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More than 200 workers, who were antecedently with the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) nether the National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM), were detained by the constabulary during their protestation for occupation regularisation adjacent 2 zonal offices connected Saturday.
The protesters, led by the Uzhaippor Urimai Iyakkam (UUI), were asked to instrumentality to their homes astatine 6 p.m., the constabulary said.
The workers person been protesting against the privatisation of coagulated discarded absorption successful Royapuram and Thiru.Vi.Ka Nagar Zones since August.
They submitted a petition to the GCC stating that they were consenting to work, adjacent without salary, to forestall h2o stagnation during the monsoon. “For the involvement of nationalist health, we petition that enactment beryllium assigned to america (the workers) immediately, wrong the Corporation, nether NULM,” the petition said.
A subordinate of the UUI further said this determination demonstrated the workers’ refusal to articulation the backstage firm.
Meanwhile, zonal officials said conservancy enactment was inactive being managed by the backstage firm, and that those interested, specified arsenic members of the nationalist oregon NGOs, could assist. They person not joined the backstage firm, and the determination to reverse the outsourcing cannot beryllium taken by section authorities. Therefore, erstwhile they staged a roadblock adjacent the 2 zonal offices, the constabulary detained them,” the authorities said.
