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The Tamil Nadu Ration Shop Employees’ Union connected Friday (June 12) urged officials to resoluteness method and administrative issues successful the implementation of the Thayumanavar Scheme and the eKYC process, informing of a boycott of scheme-related enactment from July if its demands are not met.
In a petition submitted to the Office of the Joint Registrar of Cooperative Societies (Erode Region) here, the national said just terms store employees, who signifier the backbone of the Public Distribution System, were facing mounting accent owing to method glitches and accrued workload and unit from officials.
The national sought wider nationalist consciousness of facilities disposable done the TNEPDS mobile exertion and the provisions for authorising representatives to cod commodities connected behalf of aged beneficiaries. It besides demanded a impermanent freeze-and-release mechanics for beneficiaries who person not completed eKYC, enabling accounts to beryllium reactivated automatically upon biometric authentication.
Among different demands were the removal of bluetooth-based processes from the scheme, citing delays caused by biometric and connectivity issues, and the deployment of dedicated unit and further Point of Sale (POS) devices.
The national besides sought exemption from scheme-related duties for women employees, persons with disabilities, large unit and aged workers. It called for the organisation of 3 months’ commodities successful a azygous instalment, implementation of the strategy aft the 10th of each period to easiness workload pressures, CCTV camera monitoring successful warehouses and azygous moving hours for just terms shops crossed the State.
The national appealed for aboriginal involution by the territory medication and said employees would boycott Thayumanavar Scheme work from July if their grievances remained unresolved by the extremity of June.
