Around 30 men and women urged the district administration to take steps to ensure that the case against the finance firm they had invested in be investigated at the earliest.
In their petition to the Collector at the weekly grievance meeting here on Monday, the petitioners said that the firm on V.K.K. Menon Road, Sidhapudur, had promised high rate of interest and claimed that it was an approved firm. They had deposited the money to only realise a few months ago that its promoters had surrendered before the Madras High Court, had been lodged in the Coimbatore Central Prison and the firm had been closed.
Around 100 people had invested close to Rs. 1 crore, said S. Sairandhri, a petitioner.
Action sought
Workers of a private manufacturing facility near here on Monday presented a petition to the district administration seeking action the factory management and stop it from taking machines out of the premises.
Under the Coimbatore District Engineering General Workers Association, affiliated to the AITUC, the workers said that even as a wage dispute was pending before a labour assistant commissioner here, the factory management delayed payment of wages, stuck ‘Suspension of Operation’ notice on the factory gates, which was illegal, and was trying to smuggle out the machines.
The factory was yet to pay wage for February.
Movement
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Social Awareness Movement on Monday urged the district administration to ban those precooked products that were unhygienic and unhealthy.
In a release, the organisation’s founder-president J.D. Socrates said that the precooked productscontained preservatives in more than the permitted quantity.
VCK appeal
Members of the labour wing of the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi on Monday demanded removal of a liquor outlet near the Kannappan Nagar Junction in Rathinapuri. In their petition to the district administration they said that the presence of the liquor outlet led to law and order problems.
‘Ban beef’
Members of Bharat Sena on Monday petitioned the district administration seeking a ban on beef. In their petition, they said that the State Government should close down shops selling beef and also abattoirs as the sale of beef hurt Hindu sentiments.