Mangalore, August 24: The progress review meeting of development works under schemes meant for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Mangalore taluk was postponed for the second time in a row due to an uproar caused by the delay of officials at the Mangalore Panchayat Hall here on Wednesday.
Monthly developmental review meet was also postponed last month making this the second consecutive deferment of the meeting.
Representatives of SC/ST community had gathered in numbers but were saddened by the delay and absence of officials. Assistant Commissioner of Mangalore Sub Division, the president of the Taluk level committee, officials from the police department were absent. Irritated by the unexplained absence of officials the SC/ST representatives boycotted the meeting raising slogans against “irresponsible officials”.
Manjunath, Tahsildar of Mangalore arrived 45 after minutes and tried to console the members of SC/ST community. “We are not dogs to run behind officials”, was a reply he got from the group.
When questioned by the journalists about his delay to attend the meeting Mr Manjunath said it was due to “prior commitments”. He also claimed that the delay was not his mistake.
The members of SC/ST community in conversation with the journalists said that there was no point in organising a meeting if the concerned officials were not present.
One Manjunath, who was among the 26 families displaced for having a house near the railway track recently, had attended the meeting requesting that the make-shift facilities allotted to them near Mudipu has to be vacated as they are supposed to live there for only a month.
“There are around 250 people living in the region and we don't know where to go”, he said.
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