Annamalai, President of Tamil Nadu BJP, said that the Tamil Nadu government should regularize the pensions of the retired people in the transport corporations, raise them according to the discount rate, and provide retirement cash benefits immediately.
His statement:
The government has withheld the salary hike for 102 months to the retired workers working in the Tamil Nadu Government Transport Corporations. Retirement cash benefits are also not being paid to those who have retired for 18 months.
There are 93,000 people who retired from government transport corporations in the last eight years. No increase in allowance was given to them and pension was not regularized.
Even after requesting the government several times, in September 2022, the DMK government did not give it, even after the High Court ruled that it should be given a raise according to the discount rate. Appealed to the Supreme Court.
The pensioners have held several protests to attract the attention of the government.
Instead of allocating funds for the legitimate demands of retirees after years of service in government departments, the government is allocating more funds for unnecessary expenses like car racing.
Public tax money is only for services to them and not for DMK’s entertainment. Immediately, regularization of the pension of the retirees in the Government Transport Corporations should be done immediately by increasing the cost of living, medical insurance and retirement benefits.
Don’t push the employees into a situation where they have to drag on till Pongal and then go back to business as usual. It says so.
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