EDAPPADI PALANISWAMI, VIJAY SLAM DMK GOVERNMENT; CABINET APPROVES WELFARE MEASURES FOR SANITATION WORKERS IN T.N.

Around 600 protesters, including advocates and members of the Communist parties, were removed from the pavement near the Ripon Building, the seat of Greater Chennai Corporation in the intervening night of August 13 and 14, 2025

- AJIKUMAR CHENNAI

In a late night operation on Wednesday (August 13, 2025), the police detained all the conservancy workers of the Greater Chennai Corporation, who have been staging a protest for the past 13 days demanding that privatisation of conservancy operations be dropped in two zones of the city. Nearly 400 police personnel, who were deployed from around 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday (August 13, 2025), began removing the conservancy workers.

The Tamil Nadu Cabinet, headed by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, on Thursday (August 14, 2025), approved six proposals aimed at the welfare of conservancy workers in the State, including free breakfast, medical treatment, housing, increased solatium, subsidy for entrepreneurship, and education assistance for their children.

The development comes the morning after protesting conservancy workers of the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) were evicted and detained from outside Ripon Building on Wednesday.