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Unruly behaviour of councillors: CM’s intervention sought

PUDUCHERRY: Employees of the Local Administration Department, municipalities and commune panchayats on Friday took out a rally near the Assembly and submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister N. Rangasamy seeking his intervention to prevent recurrence of the “unruly behaviour” of the councillors.

They also submitted copies of the memorandum to Lieutenant Governor and Minister for Local Administration.

Around 3,000 department and local body employees belonging to all the four regions of the Union Territory also decided to call off their agitation following an assurance given by Mr. Rangasamy that he would look into the issue and give necessary advice to the councillors in this regard, a spokesman of the employees’ association said. Functionaries of the Confederation of Pondicherry State Government Employees Associations, Confederation of Municipal and Commune Panchayat Employees Associations, All India Trade Union Congress and FUTURE said in the memorandum that the employees expressed serious concern over the “unruly behaviour” of some councillors of the Puducherry Municipality in the office of director of Local Administration Department on January 29.

The memorandum accused the councillors of throwing files and chairs in the director’s chamber when he was in a meeting in the presence of the Chief Minister elsewhere.

“This uncivilised behaviour of the councillors using unparliamentary language against the director, deputy director and personal staff caused a sense of insecurity in the minds of the employees and it is considered an affront to their self-esteem and dignity,” it said.

Without going into the merits of the issue that had reportedly provoked the councillors to storm the office of the director, the employees felt that whatever was their grievance, there had always been proper and adequate channels in the democratic set-up of the administration to find peaceful and reasonable solution to the issues, the memorandum said.

The government’s intervention to prevent recurrence of such behaviour of the councillors would instil a better sense of security and peaceful working atmosphere in the department and in the municipalities and commune panchayats in, it said.

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