Tamil Nadu State Government grants Rs 10.87 crore for generators in all courts
Posted on: 05/Nov/2014 11:17:47 AM
The Tamil Nadu state government has sanctioned Rs 10.87 crore for purchasing generators and inverters for all courts in the state.
The law department has finalised a proposal for Rs 10, 87,78,000, which is pending before the finance department, first bench of the Madras high court comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M Sathyanarayanan was informed on Monday.
The allocation, however, did not come before the bench imposed Rs 5,000 as cost on the authorities, and warned that the secretary of the department concerned must appear in person in the court if no fund is allotted and scheme prepared before Monday, when the matter was taken up for further hearing. The matter relates to a PIL filed by R Chithravelu who submitted that buildings housing family courts and other subordinate courts on the high court campus in Chennai experienced long power shutdowns on November 11 and 12 last year for several hours. Noting that normal court works were adversely affected during the period, he said even the creche for children of litigants in family courts did not escape the cut.
