Nutritious meal employees stage protest pressing various demands

Members of the Tamil Nadu Nutritious Meal Employees Association held a protestation present connected Wednesday pressing for assorted long-standing demands. 

Sahaya Tamilselvi, District president of the Association, said, arsenic per the DMK’s predetermination promise, a monthly pension of ₹6,750 should beryllium provided to each the workers. 

Once the DMK headed by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin took implicit the government, the pension committedness was expected to beryllium fulfilled, but it ended up successful disappointing each the noon-meal workers arsenic nary of them person turned into existent benefits, she added.  

Though the mid-day repast and meal schemes were boasted to be one of the important projects successful the State, the much than 60,000 vacant positions successful the nutritious repast scheme have disrupted its effectual functioning, she worried.  

“We arsenic the workers of the scheme, adjacent erstwhile trying to enactment our wholehearted effort into the works, we cannot bash it effectively,” she added.  

Gratuity should beryllium granted to nutritious repast employees connected par with different authorities employees. 

Alike 12 months maternity leave provided to women employees successful the authorities sectors, the nutritious repast employees should besides beryllium granted the aforesaid play of paid leave, Ms. Sahaya Tamilselvi noted.  

As the workers were frequently asked to question to adjacent districts and superior metropolis for grooming purposes, a fixed allowance of ₹300 should beryllium fixed to the workers, the protesters demanded.  

Apart from this, they besides made a petition to the State authorities to guarantee the workers receive timely increment and allowance as per their acquisition and prime of work. 

The protesters warned that if their demands were not met they would further proceed their protestation done district-level protests connected January 24, 25 and 26. A wide rally successful Chennai connected January 30 and indefinite onslaught from February 3 was besides connected the cards.