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Members of JACTTO-GEO observe a accelerated successful Thoothukudi connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: N. RAJESH
Demanding the revival of the aged pension strategy arsenic promised by the ruling DMK successful its canvass manifesto, members of the Joint Action Council of Tamil Nadu Teachers Organisation and Government Employees’ Organisation (JACTTO GEO) observed a hunger onslaught successful confederate districts connected Saturday.
At the accelerated organised connected the District Collectorate premises, a ample fig of authorities employees and teachers participated successful the protestation that was marked by continuous sloganeering.
The protestors said the authorities employees and teachers, who joined work aft April 1, 2003, were covered nether the contributory pension strategy alternatively of the aged pension scheme. Since the contributory pension strategy was not arsenic beneficial arsenic the aged pension scheme, JACTTO GEO was organising a bid of agitations demanding the revival of the aged pension scheme.
They recalled that during the 2021 Assembly election, the DMK had promised the authorities employees and teachers that the enactment would revive the aged pension strategy if elected to power. Hence, they overwhelmingly supported the DMK, which was present ‘cheating’ them aft coming to powerfulness successful 2021 by mounting up a committee to survey the request and the Centre’s Unified Pension Scheme.
“It is thing but betrayal and cheating of those who ensured the instrumentality of DMK to power. If Chief Minister M.K. Stalin dares to trash this all-important demand, we volition fto down the DMK this clip successful the upcoming Assembly election,” said speakers astatine the venue.
The Government Order 25 of 2023, which earnestly affected much than 90% of superior schoolhouse teachers should beryllium withdrawn and secondary grade, precocious schoolhouse and higher secondary schoolhouse teachers and higher secondary schoolhouse headmasters, carnal acquisition teachers and carnal acquisition directors beryllium fixed the wage connected par with teachers of Central schools.
The Career Advancement Scheme meant for assemblage teachers should beryllium implemented instantly by giving incentive, and wage anomalies of teachers, method staff, drivers etc. addressed. Secondary people teachers moving successful precocious and higher secondary schools should beryllium upgraded arsenic postgraduate teachers.
Nutritious repast strategy and anganwadi workers, colony assistants, colony panchayat secretaries, agrarian librarians, sanitary workers moving with the acquisition department, nurses moving with consolidated pay, peculiar teachers etc., each drafting peculiar timescale, should beryllium fixed regularised standard of pay. Part-time teachers indispensable beryllium made permanent.
Since astir of the authorities departments functioned with 30% vacancies, steps should beryllium taken to capable up the vacancies for effectual functioning. Those who were appointed betwixt 2002 and 2004 connected consolidated wage should beryllium made imperishable from their day of assignment and with stipulated wage scale. The suspended play of 41 months of roadworthy workers should beryllium regularised and the teacher eligibility trial discontinued, the protestors said.
JACTTO GEO territory coordinators M. Subbu, G. Stanley, G.K. Michael George Kamalesh, V. Gomathinayagam, V. Paul Kathiravan and Vasanthi presided implicit the agitation.
“If the Tamil Nadu Government is inactive adamant successful rejecting our genuine demands and refuses to reconstruct the aged pension scheme, our protests volition proceed intensely with taluk-level campaigns betwixt December 15 and 19 and the district-level league connected December 27 for preparing our members for indefinite onslaught from January 6,” said Mr. Subbu.
More than 700 protestors, including 200 women, participated successful the protest.
In Thoothukudi, territory coordinators of JACTTO GEO Mahendra Prabhu and Kalai Udaiyar led the hunger onslaught organised adjacent Chidambara Nagar autobus stop.
Similar agitations were organised successful Tenkasi territory and Nagercoil successful Kanniyakumari territory wherever authorities employees and teachers participated successful ample numbers.
