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HMS seeks subsidy for State Transport Corporations

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`New pay scales should have 31 per cent increase' The Government urged to permit all minibus routes to be run by State Transport Corporations

COIMBATORE: : The Tamil Nadu Road Transport Workers HMS Federation has urged the State Government to grant a subsidy of Rs. 600 crores to put the State Transport Corporations back on rails.

In a memorandum, Cheran R. Arjun, its general secretary, said that the new pay scales for the workers should extend an increase of 31 per cent in their basic salary from what they had been drawing as on August 31, 2001. Besides,

their annual increment should be a minimum of Rs. 110 and a maximum of Rs. 300.

DA on percentage basis

His other demands included dearness allowance on percentage basis (of the basic salary) as in the case of Government servants, full-fledged pension as given to Government staff, special leave for the sick leave availed due to accidents when on duty, jobs for wards and alternative jobs for those who became disabled.

`Give up privatisation'

He appealed to the Government to permit all the minibus routes to be run by the State Transport Corporations and to give up any privatisation move.

In addition, all the bus routes in Tamil Nadu should be nationalised, they said.

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