Tamil Nadu Housing Board chairman V Siva handed over a cheque of ₹30 lakh to each of the two families
I Paranthamen of DMK criticised the silence of ministers and officials over the incident, questioning why the two ministers in Chennai had not issued a statement or visited the families.
Around noon, Tamil Nadu Housing Board chairman V Siva met the protestors and handed over a cheque of ₹30 lakh each to the families. “Lives have been lost, but there is nobody to ask us what happened.
We will sit here until then, and we will not take the bodies,” the family members said. She said she had not yet seen her husband’s face after his death. They demanded that a minister meet them and address their demands. Not even one corporation officer has come here. We want the minister to come. Preethi, Naveen’s wife, was at the hospital with their one-year-old daughter. The family, which depended on his daily wage, sought a job for her.
Chennai: Family members of two workers who died after inhaling toxic gas while repairing a motor inside a stormwater drain in Kodungaiyur organised a sit-in protest at Government Stanley Hospital on Tuesday, refusing to receive the bodies.