Residents, welfare associations and institutions can send petitions on public grievances to the Chairman, Committee on Petitions, Tamil Nadu Assembly, Chennai-600 009 on or before April 20.
According to a release, the Committee on Petitions (2021-2022) will meet at the Ranipet Collectorate soon. It has sought petitions on long-standing public grievances. As per norms, such petitions should be only in Tamil (five copies), duly signed by the petitioner(s) with date and addressed to the Committee Chairman.
Petitions should be in respectful and temperate language. They should relate to public grievances which are pending disposal for many years with government departments. A petition should contain only one grievance and it should relate to only one department. They must relate to a matter of public importance.
Petitions should not relate to any of the following subjects: Individual or private grievances; matters pending before any court of law and tribunal; employment and old age pension; assignment of patta and government scheme benefits; bank loan or employment loan; request for transfer and redress of grievances by government servants.
The Committee will consider petitions which are within the ambit of the Assembly Rules. If a single petitioner sends more than one petition, the Committee will consider the most important among them. The Collectorate will send separate communication of the Committee’s meeting to the petitioners concerned in due course, the release said.
