The Tamil Nadu Town Panchayat Employees Union has urged the State government to upgrade105 select village panchayats into town panchayats across the State for ensuring a uniform growth and development in terms of urbanisation.
Addressing the media here on Sunday, K. Balasubramanian, honorary State president of the Union, said that the State government has planned to upgrade 42 town panchayats into municipalities. This upgradation, he said, would result in serious dislocation of employees. While officials of town panchayats were promoted to the next higher grade in the municipal offices, the lower-rung staff were demoted and posted to village panchayats.
Further, the upgrading of the village panchayats into town panchayats would bring about a uniform and cogent development.
Mr. Balasubramanian said that the State government should directly disburse the wages to the camera operators appointed on contract basis in the Registration Department. As many as 575 camera operators had to shell a part of their monthly salary of ₹ 8,000 to the contractors. “Though the contract wage is ₹ 8,000 they have been drawing just ₹ 4,200 per mensum,” he said.
He also said that the Revenue Department had terminated the services of Social Security Implementation (SSI) personnel across the State. They could be inducted and deployed in other categories such as record clerks and other posts in accordance with their educational qualification. Similarly, the employees of closed TASMAC shops who had been re-deployed in other shops, should be inducted as office assistants or placed in other posts.
C. Pazhanivel, president of the Union and N. Muniasamy, former president, said that a conference of the town panchayat employees would be held in Tiruchi in April when a decision on further course of action would be taken.
