Employees of Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies staged a demonstration here on Monday to highlight their grievances pertaining to the unnecessary pressures they face at workplace.
T. Ananthakrishnan, secretary of the PAACS Employees Association, said that the employees were mentally harassed by departmental officers unnecessarily which eventually led to the suicide of a few staff in Chennai, Tiruvarur and other areas in the recent times.
“Officials from various departments are frequently conducting raids in fair price shops with the motive of harassing the staff. We want to streamline the checks,” he added.
The employees also wanted the authorities to ensure that the essential commodities were supplied in exact requisite quantity to the fair price shops instead of later finding fault with the shop supervisor for deficient stock. They also sought protection to cooperative credit societies and fair price shops’ staff from the hostilities of the consumers.
