Rural development department workers stage wait-in protest
The protestors, led by S. Edwin, district president of the Union, district and block-level coordinators should be appointed on permanent basis so that monitoring and follow-up of the works would become easier. The Tamil Nadu Government, as promised, should give the incentive to all workers involved in COVID prevention activities. The district and the block-level coordinators and the computer operators should be given annual increments.
Gratuity should be given to all temporary workers and all vacancies in the village panchayats filled-up. Minimum wages should be fixed as per law and given to the sanitary workers, motivators, pump operators, overhead tank operators and computer operators. Social security schemes like Employees' State Insurance, Provident Fund etc. should be extended to these workers, they said.
State coordinator of the Union S. Govindan, state joint secretary V. Paramasivan, state president of AITUC S. Kasi Viswanathan and others spoke.
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