VAOs protest against dilution of job scheme, want new laws to be withdrawn

Members of the Tamil Nadu Village Administrative Officers Association observed a hunger onslaught present connected Tuesday demanding the withdrawal of the caller laws introduced successful spot of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).

The protesters gathered astatine Collectorate analyzable and condemned the Union authorities for changing the sanction of the MGNREGA scheme, reducing its funding, and diluting its halfway values.

Association territory president Paramasivam said though the protestation was organised condemning the Centre’s determination connected MGNREGA, they demanded basal facilities specified arsenic toilets for the Rural Development section officers.

Though respective of them had worked for decades together, promotion a distant dream, helium said. “The Tamil Nadu authorities should walk a Government Order (GO) mandating promotion of Village Administrative Officers to peculiar people officers.”

Vijayaramalingam, District President, Tamil Nadu Government Employees Association, Sivanupoovan, District Vice-President, Rural Development Pensioners Association, and Genista, Executive, Treasury Officers Association, spoke astatine the protest.