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swipe at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami for raising the retirement age of government employees to 60 years, saying the announcement was made with an eye on the forthcoming assembly elections in the state. Though increasing the retirement age of state government employees was welcome, it appears that the announcement was made with the elections in mind, Stalin alleged. Raising the retirement age is welcome, albeit the announcement made for the election, the DMK leader said in a Facebook post on Thursday. He said the chief minister should have fixed the age criteria of 60 years, when he had increased the retirement age to 59 from 58 years in May last year.
They were protesting in support of their charter of demands The police have booked employees who were protesting on a charter of demands in front of the Secretariat on Friday and attempting to barge inside St. George Fort.
The government employees and teachers’ associations have been conducting a series of protests across the State in support of their charter of demands, including pending 21-month arrears as per the seventh pay panel report, reverting to the old pension scheme, elimination of wage anomalies, regular pay for all those under consolidated and special time scale pay, and revoking a government order setting up a staff rationalisation committee.
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Pressing demands: Members of Tamil Nadu Government Employees Union staging a road roko in Erode on Tuesday.
Employees want old pension scheme implemented
Urging the State government to scrap the New Pension Scheme and implement the old pension scheme, members of Tamil Nadu Government Employees Association (TNGEA) staged a road roko outside the Taluk Office here on Tuesday.
Led by its district president R. Rakimuthu, members said the State government had introduced the Contributory Pension Scheme for its employees who joined service after April 1, 2003. But the guidelines for the new scheme were yet to be announced whereas the contribution was deducted every month from the employees all these years.