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“Fill entry level vacancies in Government offices”

MADURAI: The Tamil Nadu Government Employees’ Association (TNGEA) has urged the State Government to fill at least entry level vacancies to ensure that regular work did not get affected.

According to R. Tamil Selvi, State vice-president of the association and All India State Government Employees’ Federation, of the 1.8 lakh vacancies, at least 60,000 were at the entry level.

Considering the volume of work and to make sure that routine work did not get affected, senior staff members and officials had to make their own arrangements by hiring people to finish the work. They paid out of their salary to such persons, who were around 25,000.

Briefing presspersons here on Monday, she said that all those working under consolidated and non-standard time scale pay structure, including anganwadi and noon meal workers, panchayat assistants, pump operators, village assistants, people welfare officers, sanitary staff, forest guards, temporary junior assistants, librarians, temporary technical staff in Tamil Nadu Medical Service and computer assistants should be brought under regular time scale and paid pension.

A committee comprising technical experts must be formed to clear pay anomalies among the technical staff. The Government should not interfere in administrative matters and higher officials must stop harassing their subordinates.

Pointing to specific instances where employees were asked to report for duty even during holidays, she said that the work load was heavy on the staff and added that the Government’s computerisation process was ‘half-baked.’

“With no skilled computer professional there is no proper in-service training programme for the staff members to get trained in computer operations.” She also demanded Government recognition for the association as promised by the Chief Minister at its State conference last year.

A region-level dharna would be staged here on April 10 in support of the demands in which members from Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga, Dindigul, Theni, Tuticorin, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts would participate, Ms. Tamil Selvi said.

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