The Tamil Nadu authorities has accrued the monthly consolidated remuneration of sanitary workers (Thooimai Kavalars) employed successful colony panchayats from ₹5,000 to ₹6,000.
The Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department issued an bid to this effect connected Tuesday (February 4, 2026) and ordered the allocation of ₹476.136 crore per annum from the State Finance Commission Grant.
To instrumentality coagulated discarded absorption activities specified arsenic collection, segregation, and harmless disposal and to guarantee cleanliness successful agrarian areas, sanitary workers person been engaged successful each colony panchayats connected an outsourcing ground done Village Poverty Reduction Committees (VPRCs) and Panchayat Level Federations (PLFs).
The past revision successful the monthly remuneration of agrarian sanitary workers was carried retired connected April 1, 2023, erstwhile their wage was accrued from ₹3,600 to ₹5,000.

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