Tamil Nadu govt staff plays rummy in mobile during farmers' grievances day meet, served notice 

Bosco Dominique | TNN | Nov 19, 2017, 21:24 IST

VILLUPURAM: An engineer of the Tamil Nadu electricity board was spotted playing rummy in his mobile phone when the farmers of the Villupuram district were narrating their woes during the farmers' grievances day meeting chaired by the district colletor, last Friday.

District collector, L Subramanian, swung into action after receiving complaints against the engineer and directed the superintending engineer to serve a notice seeking an explanation from him as to why action cannot be taken against him for his behaviour within 15 days.

"I have asked the SE (superintending engineer) to serve a notice to him (Tamil Nadu electricity board engineer) seeking an explanation within 15 days. We will take further course of action based on his explanation," district collector said.

The TNEB official was identified as executive engineer (Tindivanam) Sadasivam. The farmers have been complaining that the district officials holding the farmers' grievances day meet were not attentive. They charged that the officials either sleep or play games or watch serials in their mobile phones during the meeting when the farmers outlined their woes seeking help from the government.