Tangedco contract workers stage protest demanding job permanency

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Tangedco workers, who staged a protestation  successful  Madurai connected  Tuesday, said they had raised respective  times their superior   demand of occupation  permanency for much  than 8,000 workers.

Tangedco workers, who staged a protestation successful Madurai connected Tuesday, said they had raised respective times their superior demand of occupation permanency for much than 8,000 workers. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The members of the Central Organisation of Tamil Nadu Electricity Employees (COTEE) — CITU staged a protestation present connected Tuesday, demanding fulfilment of DMK’s predetermination committedness of declaring declaration workers imperishable employees.

The protesters said their superior demand, which was to marque the work of much than 8,000 workers employed successful Tangedco nether assorted departments similar powerfulness distribution, thermal, hydro and wide construction, who had fulfilled the basal criteria of completing 10 years of service, had been raised respective times since the DMK authorities took over.

But the demand, which was besides 1 of the party’s predetermination promises, was not adjacent considered by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, they added.

When the employment nether declaration strategy was not caller and had been followed since 1970, the erstwhile authorities had taken the effort to marque the declaration workers permanent.

By that way, much than 75,000 declaration workers were made imperishable from 1970 to 2007, they recalled.

“Though Tangedco has astir 52,000 vacancies, the State authorities is not taking immoderate efforts to induct the impermanent workers successful regular service. In summation to the 8,000 workers, the authorities should besides capable the remaining vacancies to guarantee creaseless functioning of the service,” the protesters added.

Due to the declaration system, the workers were not adjacent recorded successful the unit entry, and owed to that they were successful a precarious concern that adjacent during accidents oregon enactment spot injuries they would not beryllium eligible for immoderate compensation, the protesters pointed out.

Published - September 23, 2025 10:31 p.m. IST

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