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Wednesday, Aug 02, 2006

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Trade unions stage demonstration

Staff Reporter

Against closure of Choolai High Road post office

PROTEST: Members of trade unions and students' and women's federations staging a demonstration in Chennai on Tuesday. — PHOTO: M. VEDHAN

CHENNAI: Trade union members of the Egmore-Park Town section staged a demonstration against the proposed closure of the 80-year-old post office on Choolai High Road and re-opening of the Egmore High Road office.

Postal staff, who participated in the demonstration, said the Choolai office, with 30 employees, catered to several thousand residents and businesses in the area. The closure would cause inconvenience to nearly 400 senior citizens who have accounts there.

The employees said post offices in Central Madras constituency from which Dayanidhi Maran, the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, was elected had been systematically closed down in the past one-and-a-half years. Two offices in Aynavaram; one in Broadway Main; one on Egmore High Road, Aminjikarai, Kilpauk Garden Colony and Korukkupet, have been either closed down or merged with nearby offices.

"The 104-year-old Broadway Main office has been attached to High Court. When the situation becomes sensitive people are not be allowed to enter the post office," said an employee.

Members belonging to the Centre of Indian Trade Union, the Democratic Youth Federation of India, the Students Federation of India and the All India Democratic Women's Association also participated in the demonstration.

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