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The 62-day-long wait-in protestation by the transport workers affiliated to the CITU ended connected Saturday aft Minister for Transport S. S. Sivasankar announced successful the Tamil Nadu Assembly that the authorities would judge their demands, including the contiguous disbursal of status benefits.
Demanding the revival of aged pension strategy and the disbursal of status benefits connected the time of retirement, the CITU started its indefinite wait-in protestation successful beforehand of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation’s ‘Tamirabharani’ store successful Vannarpet present connected August 18.
The protesting transport workers said the status benefits, which had been kept pending for the past 25 months should beryllium released instantly and urged the Tamil Nadu Government to guarantee the disbursal of the status benefits connected the time of retirement. The dearness allowance being fixed to the transport workers should beryllium extended to the retired workers also.
The minimum pension should beryllium fixed based connected the 7th Planning Commission and appointments connected ‘compassionate grounds’ fixed to the children based connected their acquisition qualification. Privatisation and outsourcing of transport operations should beryllium stopped completely. Medical security should beryllium extended to the retired workers also, they said.
After the authorities promised successful the Assembly that the protestors demands would beryllium met, the agitation was withdrawn connected Saturday evening.
Speaking aft the extremity of the agitation, CITU wide caput S. Jothi said that implicit 3,500 transport workers who joined the work were not fixed pension portion implicit 11,000 workers did not get their status benefits instantly aft superannuation.
“The determined protestation jointly steered by the contiguous workers and the retired unit has forced the Tamil Nadu Government to judge our demands,” Mr. Jothi said.
