Kovai flagpole victim offered state govt job

Minister for Social Welfare V Saroja on Monday announced that Rajeswari Anuradha, a 31- year-old-woman from Coimbatore, who met with an accident after an AIADMK flagpole fell on her and lost a leg, will be given a government job based on her qualification.

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Published:19th Nov, 2019 at 4:39 AM

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“Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has directed me to allot a government job for Rajeswari on behalf of Differently-abled Welfare Department. The Commissioner of the Department has been asked to contact her father and to provide her the employment based on her educational qualification,” said Saroja, while addressing reporters, after conducting marriage for 48 differently-abled couple in Royapettah.

The incident happened on November 11 when an AIADMK flagpole fell on the road and Rajeswari, trying to avoid it, fell on the road and went under the wheels of a lorry. Following the incident, she was admitted in the ICU and recently one of her legs was amputated.

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Kovai flagpole victim offered state govt job

Minister for Social Welfare V Saroja on Monday announced that Rajeswari Anuradha, a 31- year-old-woman from Coimbatore, who met with an accident after an AIADMK flagpole fell on her and lost a leg, will be given a government job based on her qualification.

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