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Time of India
29-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Appointed at 74: TNPCB recruits super-seniors for regular posts
CHENNAI: At a time when several lakh qualified youngsters remain unemployed and await govt job openings, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has appointed a Rajendiran, aged 74, as its 'librarian' with a salary of not less than Rs 1 lakh. The TNPCB library has about 11,000 books on topics ranging from policies, pollution, disasters and the environment. He is not alone. TNPCB has appointed three more people, aged 64-65 years, in different capacities. Tamilarasan, 64, who had retired from prohibition and excise department, Sampath, 65, who retired from home department, and Narayanan, 65, who superannuated in finance department, have all been recently hired by TNPCB. These 'officials' are now earning their last drawn salary, of course minus pension. When contacted, TNPCB chairperson M Jayanthi said: 'Youngsters are not willing to come to these departments, nor do they have the expertise to handle this. Finance is a major department. We can only appoint seniors in that. So, a senior retired officer from the finance department was posted here. Similarly, it is a tough task to manage a library, and the 74-year-old is an experienced librarian. They are doing their job well. ' 'We asked the govt for postings, and all these four staff members were recommended by the Secretariat. We do recruit youngsters, but they have not yet attained the necessary experience,' she said. These late-stage appointments have drawn criticism from govt employees and secretariat staff associations, who say TNPSC should recruit fresh candidates and promote and train their mid-level staff with the necessary expertise. G Venkadesan, president of the Tamil Nadu Secretariat Association, condemned govt departments for infinite extensions, and said: 'Seniors who retire get extensions and then continue to occupy the top roles and call the shots, drawing their last drawn salary.' It is the duty of the departments to ensure knowledge-sharing, train youngsters and mid-level staff for the higher positions. The association also wrote to chief minister M K Stalin on March 11, condemning the state special projects implementation department for floating newspaper advertisements to hire retired officials, with tailor-made requirements such as 'a deputy secretary rank officer who had worked in the secretariat'. Such late-stage recruitments violate the 69% reservation rule too. M Anbarasu, former president of JATCO-GEO, said the govt should hire fresh recruits through TNPSC and train the mid-level officers for posts with bigger responsibilities. 'Re-appointing retired officials will deny govt jobs to youths,' he said.
Time of India
28-05-2025
- Time of India
Two die in car-bike collision near Thuraiyur
Trichy: Two men on a moped were killed after their vehicle was hit by a car near Thuraiyur in Trichy district on Tuesday night. The deceased were identified as P Karuppannan, 65, and P Rajendiran, 60, from Kottapalayam village in Thuraiyur taluk. According to police, Karuppannan and Rajendiran were returning from the residence of Karuppannan's daughter, Bama, around 8pm on Tuesday. Karuppannan was riding the moped while Rajendiran was riding pillion. When they were passing near a bridge at Maradi, a car driven by P Gopi, 45, coming in the opposite direction collided with them. Karuppannan and Rajendiran died on the spot. Police retrieved the bodies, and sent them to Thuraiyur general hospital for autopsy. Police said that Gopi was allegedly drunk during the incident. He was arrested on Wednesday. A case was registered at Uppiliapuram police station under BNS sections 281 (rash driving) and 106-1 (causing death by negligence) based on the complaint from Bama. TNN
The Hindu
30-04-2025
- General
- The Hindu
Fisheries Department begins verification of fishing vessels in Puducherry
The Puducherry Department of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare has begun a physical verification drive of motorised and non-motorised fishing craft in the Union Territory (UT). According to Deputy Director of Fisheries (Mechanisation) G. Rajendiran, the exercise follows an instruction from the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying to all the coastal States/UTs to complete physical verification of fishing vessels during the 2025 fishing ban period and to update the registry with ReALCRaft (Registration and Licensing of Fishing Craft) portal data accordingly. Further, it was directed to submit status and action-taken reports in this regard to the Ministry, he said. As part of the drive, the Department of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare carried out the annual physical verification of all motorised and non-motorised fishing boats, berthed at the Thengaithittu fishing harbour and 15 coastal villages in Puducherry. A team led by Mohammed Ismail, Director of Fisheries, and Mr. Rajendiran had been constituted to carry out the inspection. During the exercise, registered boat owners submitted their documents for verification. With respect to the registered fishing boats not produced before physical verification, a separate enquiry will be made, and their registration will be continued or deleted based on the enquiry report. The second phase of the exercise will cover mechanised fishing boats in Puducherry. Similar physical verification exercises will be launched in the outlying region of Karaikal shortly, Mr. Rajendiran added.
