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The Tamil Nadu Domestic Breeding Checkers (DBC) Workers Union and Doctors Association for Social Equality (DASE) person urged the State authorities to revoke the directive that penalises DBC workers by levying a good of ₹200 and withholding a day’s wage if 3 dengue cases are reported successful their country of work.
A. R. Shanthi, associated wide caput of the union, said the fig of DBC workers should beryllium accrued arsenic per the emergence successful population, and factors specified arsenic mosquito proliferation and the interaction of climatic changes. Noting that determination are astir 23,000 workers successful the State, she said this is inadequate, and should beryllium accrued substantially arsenic determination is simply a request for astatine slightest 2 to 3 times higher fig of workers.
The State Health Department has said that determination was a emergence successful dengue cases, 17,000 cases and 9 deaths truthful far, she claimed. In galore places, the workers were besides terminated, adversely impacting mosquito power work. In Anthiyur (Erode), determination are 10 workers arsenic opposed to 28, portion determination are 15 workers successful spot of 24 successful Chennimalai (Erode) and 8 against 20 successful Mugaiyur (Villupuram), she said.
In galore districts, these workers are besides being deployed for tasks specified arsenic spot taxation collection, roadworthy inspections, rainwater harvesting checks, issuing conveyance parking tokens, and mobilising crowds for authorities events, they said. They were besides engaged successful works for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
The associations demanded that the directive imposing a good connected DBCs should beryllium revoked, they should not beryllium engaged successful different works, should beryllium fixed occupation security, and classified arsenic semi-skilled people I workers.
DASE besides raised the contented of ace speciality aesculapian seats going vacant successful the State. G.R. Ravindranath, its wide secretary, said that past year, much than 600 seats fell vacant successful the country. In Tamil Nadu alone, 40 seats went unfilled. Though the Supreme Court directed to capable up the seats, galore stay vacant.
“In T.N., seats nether the work quota person fallen vacant. To guarantee that this does not happen, the regularisation that authorities doctors indispensable implicit astatine slightest 2 years of work to use for the work quota indispensable beryllium relaxed for ace speciality seats that stay vacant successful the last circular of counselling. Candidates with 1 twelvemonth of work whitethorn beryllium permitted, and if seats stay vacant, past freshers tin besides beryllium allowed. All authorities doctors who person completed their MD/MS and person joined authorities work should beryllium permitted to instrumentality the NEET-Super Speciality exam,” helium said.
