At the end of high-level talks with officials later on Monday, the chief minister passed orders for reverting to the old scheme of tendering the sand trade. The power to handle the tenders for sand quarrying was delegated to the district collectors.
Also, it was decided at this meeting to hold the review meetings with the collectors and district superintendents of police.
The letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came the next day, pleading for intervention to save the weavers from spiralling yarn price.
It was also decided to sanction compensation of Rs.one lakh each to the two families of the workers from Tamil Nadu killed in Iraq recently.
Now the chief minister is getting ready to chair the review meetings with the district collectors and SPs, to be held everyday up to May 30—except for recess on May 26.
It could be very difficult, even torturous, for someone who had just undergone treatment for pain in the neck and the back, to undertake to preside over these long bureaucratic sessions, but then, that’s what Mr Karunanidhi is made of—a spirit of hard steel even though he needs the support of someone else’s shoulder to shuffle around with his fatigued frame. He attended office at the Fort St. George on Monday and received the interim report from the one-man commission of Justice P.Shanmugam probing the telephone-tapping episode.
At the end of high-level talks with officials later on Monday, the chief minister passed orders for reverting to the old scheme of tendering the sand trade. The power to handle the tenders for sand quarrying was delegated to the district collectors.
Also, it was decided at this meeting to hold the review meetings with the collectors and district superintendents of police.
The letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came the next day, pleading for intervention to save the weavers from spiralling yarn price.
It was also decided to sanction compensation of Rs.one lakh each to the two families of the workers from Tamil Nadu killed in Iraq recently.
Now the chief minister is getting ready to chair the review meetings with the district collectors and SPs, to be held everyday up to May 30—except for recess on May 26.
It could be very difficult, even torturous, for someone who had just undergone treatment for pain in the neck and the back, to undertake to preside over these long bureaucratic sessions, but then, that’s what Mr Karunanidhi is made of—a spirit of hard steel even though he needs the support of someone else’s shoulder to shuffle around with his fatigued frame.