Through a resolution passed at the Friday’s urgent council meeting the Councillors decided to appeal to the Commissioner for Municipal Administration to fill up 715 posts, which have remained since creation in 1999.
These include two assistant commissioners, law officer, four assistant executive engineers, 72 conservancy workers, 22 tax collectors, unskilled labour, drivers, pharmacists among others.
Commissioner T.K. Ponnusamy said that the resolution was part of the efforts to have vacant posts filled, create new posts and regularise workers on contract.
The resolution followed a Government direction to have separate resolutions for filling up vacant posts, regularising temporary workers and creating new posts.
The Corporation had earlier sent a common resolution for its entire manpower requirement.
As part of the move, the Council also passed another resolution seeking regularisation of 59 unskilled workers, who were on temporary, contractual employment with the local bodies that had merged with the Corporation.
Mr. Ponnusamy said the move would help the Corporation improve delivery of services.
He pointed to a resolution the Council had passed a few meetings ago seeking creation of over 3,500 posts.
The Council also passed resolutions to build a new fish market at Ukkadam, lay roads at many wards and also repair roads that were damaged during the execution of the underground drainage work, construct school buildings, approve of tenders for road works, purchase bins for waste collection and buy generators to be used in the Aliyar water supply schemes.
At the end of the Council meeting the Mayor gave away wireless radio handsets to P. Rajkumar, Chairman, North Zone, B. Savithri, Chairperson, West Zone, M. Perumalsamy, Chairman, South Zone, K.A. Adhinarayanan, Chairman, Central Zone, and K.R. Jayaram, Chairman, East Zone.
