A belated sanction for abroad trip

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, JUNE 28. An overseas trip approved for a `non-existent' official and a councillor who came in carrying the Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalithaa's portrait provided some lighter moments at the Chennai Corporation Council on Thursday.

The Deputy Commissioner (Revenue and Finance) was to have travelled to Australia on official work. But the seat is now vacant after Dr. Senthil Kumar, the DC (R & F), was transferred to the public department. No new officer has been appointed to the post.

His trip has been approved now, after the council session adopted the tabled resolutions. Officials point out that if the approval would have came in the last meet, on June 20, it could have been of some use, as the tour of the official holding charge of the post of DC (R & F) would have begun on June 26.

The AIADMK councillor, Mr. Subas Chandra Bose, was seen carrying a portrait of Ms. Jayalalithaa into the council. He was seen wildly gesticulating, but as the session ended in a mere five minutes, he was seen carrying the same back.

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