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The Hindu
5 days ago
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- The Hindu
TNROA members protest pressing for demands
Members of Tamil Nadu Revenue Officers Association (TNROA) on Tuesday staged a protest in front of the Madurai Collectorate urging the State government to fulfil their charter of demands. The members were led by TNROA Madurai district president T.M. Gopi, treasurer L. Muthu Pandian and central executive member Ramkumar. They said that the employees were finding it difficult to implement the various welfare schemes as they were burdened with an additional workload. They said that the recently launched 'Ungaludan Stalin' and other welfare schemes had led to an added burden. The implementation of the welfare schemes should be streamlined, volunteers should be included and basic infrastructure should be provided, they said. The members said that all the existing vacancies in various posts should be filled so that there was no deadline pressure on the employees and sufficient time should be provided to them to ensure the proper implementation of the schemes, they said.
The Hindu
03-08-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Revenue officers announce agitations in Tamil Nadu seeking to implement demands
Members of the Tamil Nadu Revenue Officers Association (TNROA) have announced a series of agitations against the Tamil Nadu government and to draw the attention of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to get their long-pending demands implemented swiftly. Speaking to media persons on Sunday, TNROA president M.P. Murugaiyan, State general secretary S Sankaralingam and other office-bearers said that at a time when the employees were finding it tough with implementation of many welfare programmes, the recently launched 'Ungaludan Stalin' among others had led to an added burden and exhaustion to their workload. The association's central executive committee meeting was held in Krishnagiri on July 31. Many resolutions were passed. It was resolved to meet the Chief Secretary on August 7 and apprise the official of the issues. In the next phase, the meeting resolved to abstain from their works (an hour earlier) on August 12 and stage demonstrations in front of collectorates/headquarters. Even if this does not work, the entire workforce affiliated with the TNROA, which has 14000 members, would abstain from work for two days - September 3 and 4, the resolution stated. The EC members alleged in the meeting that in many districts and at the Secretariat, the revenue employees were instructed to conduct camps for three days in a week. In some districts, the staff members were not even allowed to take the lunch break. The higher officials wanted response given back to the public swiftly. The officials should either put the schemes on hold or implement their demands, which are just and required for the administration to function smoothly. It would be impossible to take forward the schemes with a skeleton strength. When the government wants the populist schemes to reach the masses, the administration should also be equipped to handle them. If the minimum required human resources could not be provided, it may not be possible to execute it in a proper manner and on time as expected by the top bureaucrats. The association has been demanding fresh recruitment to the vacancies, which accounted to 30 % in the revenue and disaster management departments. 'We are the main department for taking up the programmes of the government to the people. When the DMK was in the Opposition, they promised to bring back the old pension scheme. The CM, had then, given an assurance to fill vacancies as early as in 2019,' Mr Murugaiyan said. After coming to power in 2021, though the Revenue Minister KKSSR Ramachandran agreed to the demands and after continued talks, when it was decided to implement some of them in May 2023, even that had not been given shape till date, Mr Murugaiyan said and added that some of the top officials were not keen to get the demands implemented.
