Be it the 275 data entry operators in the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) or organic farmers, all of them have been holding press meets and staging protests, desperately wanting to be heard before the Assembly election is announced.
The TNCSC Computer Operators’ Association — comprising 275 members who have been working on contract since 2009, managing stocks at godowns and ensuring supplies to fair price shops — have demanded that their members be appointed to the existing vacancies at the respective godowns.
“We joined for a pay of ₹13,688. But recently, this was reduced to ₹11,300. We want the DMK government to keep its 2021 poll promise and make our jobs permanent,” A. Manivannan, general secretary of the association, said.
The Tamil Nadu Qualified Yoga Teachers’ Association wants 250 of its members, who teach yoga at primary health centres and government schools, to be paid the wages for 2023-24 and 2024-25.
“The training was provided under the Ayushman Bharat scheme. The Centre has released ₹1.50 crore for wages, but the State government has not paid that amount. Instead, it sacked the yoga teachers and tried to appoint those who had Bachelor of Naturopathy and Yoga Sciences degrees in that place. Since we went to court, we have not been paid our salaries,” said association secretary V. Kasinathadurai.
