MADURAI: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly’s Committee on Petitions for the year 2026-27 is visiting Madurai district soon and carry out inspection to examine the petitions received from the public with regard to their grievances.
Individuals, associations and institutions in Madurai district who wish to submit petitions seeking redressal of public grievances can send their petitions before the last date November 30th 2026.
They must send their petitions in Tamil only (three copies), duly signed and dated by the petitioner(s), addressed to ‘The Chairman, Committee on Petitions, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, Chennai-600 009’ on or before 30th November 2026, Madurai District Collector Mr.Nishant Krishna has said in a press release issued through the district collectorate here today.
Each petition should contain only one grievance and should relate to only one department. If a petitioner submits more than one petition, the committee will consider only the most important petition among them, the press release added.
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Stating that the petition must relate to matters of general public importance, the collectorate press release further said that the petitions should not relate to individual/private grievances, matters pending before any court of law, tribunal or other judicial authority, requests for employment opportunities, old-age pensions, assignment of patta (land title) or government welfare schemes.The petitions also should not relate to requests for bank loans or requests for transfers.
“The Committee on Petitions of TN Legislative Assembly will consider only those petitions that fall within the purview of Assembly rules. Grievances concerning different departments must be submitted as separate petitions. Petitions received after November 30th 2026 will not be considered by the committee,” the District Collector has said.
During the committee’s visits to Madurai district the dates of which will be informed soon, the factual position regarding the grievances raised in the petitions will be ascertained from the officials concerned who will participate in the deliberations in the presence of the petitioners, and the Madurai District Collectorate will send separate communication directly to the petitioners regarding the committee’s meeting in due course, the press release said.
R.Sabarinathan, MLA and Chief Government Whip, is the chairman of Assembly Petitions Committee and 10 MLAs are members.
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