Chennai sources have revealed that after serving as a part time sweeper for paltry Rs two per day in Tamilnadu animal husbandry department for the past 17 years, a man has knocked at the doors of Madras High Court (HC) seeking regularization of his service.
Meanwhile when admitting the petition by M Ravikumar, Justice M Govindaraju today ordered status quo on proceedings consequent to an April 19 last communication of the Director of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services calling for interviews for post of assistants in the department.
Moreover the petitioner, attached to the sub-centre
of the department in Vellodu in Erode District, submitted that he hailed from a
poor background. He had to give up education and was forced to work to sustain
his family.
Sources have added that since July 20, 2000, he had been working as a part-time sweeper at the Vellodu sub-centre for a salary of Rs. 2 per day. Though he expected his services to be regularized after two years, it did not happen. It was 'inhuman' on the part of the government to keep employees like him un-regularized for decades, Ravikumar said seeking a direction to the authorities to employ him as an assistant in the department.
