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The Tamil Nadu Government Employees Association (TNGEA) connected Thursday staged a protestation successful Madurai, arsenic portion of a State-wide exercise, demanding revival of the aged pension scheme.
As promised during the predetermination run for the Assembly polls, the DMK authorities should immediately abolish the Contributory Pension Scheme and instrumentality the aged pension scheme, TNGEA territory caput K. Chandrabose said.
Another repeated and cardinal request pertained to filling up of lakhs of existing vacancies successful the State. The hold successful filling up the vacancies had lone burdened the employees who were mandated and pressured to take implicit additional responsibilities and work, he further said.
The authorities should besides supply regular timescale pay and statutory pension to employees moving under special time scale, consolidated pay, or honorarium (noon meal strategy workers, anganwadi workers, Revenue Village Assistants, Rural Librarians, MRB Nurses, PPP & COE staff, etc.). The authorities indispensable instantly merchandise the 21 months of dearness allowance arrears that had not been paid to lakhs of employees and teachers.
The protesters besides demanded revocation of the simplification successful appointments made connected compassionate grounds from 25% to 5% and reconstruct the earlier norm of 25%.
Another large alteration successful employment signifier that was plaguing each work successful the State was the strategy of outsourcing. “As it is the basal origin for respective irregularities and accidents, the authorities should instantly cancel the assignment of unit done outsourcing by backstage companies successful important departments including health, municipality, corporation, municipality panchayat, revenue and onshore survey. Instead, imperishable employees should beryllium appointed nether the clip standard wage system,” helium added.
Additionally, the protesters besides pushed for regularisation of workers of corporations, municipalities, town panchayats, and rural development departments as authorities employees.
Around 90 members who had gathered to protestation were detained by constabulary and released successful the evening.
