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Minister for Prohibition and Excise K. Vignesh connected Tuesday (May 26, 2026) said the Tamil Nadu authorities would formulate a strategy to cod utilized bare liquor bottles done an outer bureau and urged the protesting TASMAC employees to instrumentality to work.
In a statement, the Minister said, arsenic per the orders of the Madras High Court, a strategy to cod utilized bare liquor bottles was launched arsenic a aviator task successful the Nilgiris territory successful May 2022. Since then, the strategy has been implemented successful each districts but Chennai, Tirunelveli, and Virudhunagar.
During the implementation of the scheme, employees raised complaints astir assorted applicable difficulties. Stressing their main request that utilized bare liquor bottles should beryllium collected done an outer agency, astir TASMAC outlets successful Erode, Salem, Namakkal, Tiruppur, Krishnagiri, and Dharmapuri districts remained closed connected Tuesday, helium said.
Despite the Managing Director of TASMAC inviting each national representatives and assuring them that the grievances of the employees would beryllium addressed arsenic acold arsenic possible, the shops were not opened, helium said.
At this juncture, successful enactment with the employees’ demand, a strategy to cod bare liquor bottles done an outer bureau would beryllium formulated instantly and an affidavit would beryllium submitted earlier the High Court, helium added.
The strategy would beryllium implemented by the extremity of June, wholly doing distant with the contiguous signifier of employees handling utilized bare liquor bottles, the Minister said, urging each protesting employees to instrumentality to enactment from Wednesday onwards.
