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Various transport commercialized unions person welcomed the State government’s determination to settee long-pending dues of pension and different terminal benefits for thousands of employees of assorted State Transport Undertakings (STUs).
In a authorities bid connected Wednesday, the State authorities released ₹2,446.46 crore for colony of pending terminal benefits specified arsenic provident fund, pension, gratuity, and permission wage commutation to 6,867 employees who retired, took voluntarily status betwixt August 2024 and March 2026, oregon died portion employed successful the 8 STUs.
The 8 STUs see the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) of Chennai, State Express Transport Corporation (SETC), and Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) of Villupuram, Salem, Coimbatore, Kumbakonam, Madurai, and Tirunelveli.
K. Arumuga Nainar, CITU-TNSTC secretary, said it was a triumph for the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) that had been warring for respective years to get the terminal benefits for the employees. When an worker retires, helium should get the pension and different benefits wrong 30 days, but successful the STUs, the employees had to hold for astatine slightest 18 months, helium said.
The CITU person thanked Chief Minister M.K. Stalin for releasing the amount. He besides appreciated the State authorities for putting an extremity to the 15 years of conflict by transport commercialized unions for pension and different benefits. M. Shanmugam, caput of the Labour Progressive Federation (LPF), the commercialized national affiliated to the ruling DMK, said the Chief Minister had been taking respective steps to fortify the Transport Department, including the escaped autobus question strategy for women, wherever the STUs were compensated by the Social Welfare Department. Now, it has brought to an extremity the sufferings of retired transport employees with a important allocation of ₹2,446 crore, helium added.
R. Kamalakannan, caput of Anna Thozhir Sangam, portion welcoming the move, said the magnitude had been released with an oculus connected the upcoming Assembly election.
The breakdown of the allocation for the STUs are: MTC ₹374 crore; TNSTC Kumbakonam ₹487 crore, Villupuram ₹369 crore, Coimbatore ₹360 crore, Madurai ₹294 crore, Tirunelveli ₹257 crore and Salem ₹180 crore; and SETC ₹122 crore.
