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Coimbatore: About 350 revenue officials in the district boycotted work for the third consecutive day on Friday, pressing their 10-point charter of demands, including enhanced pay for office assistant to district revenue officers and filling of vacant posts, and protested in front of the district collector’s office.
D Shanmugaraj, district secretary, Tamil Nadu Revenue Officials’ Association, said, ‘The strike will continue until the state government holds a talk with us and finds a solution to our demands.”
He said the nature and workload of the revenue department, which deals with issues related to as many as 166 regulations, were completely different from that of other departments that had to deal only with issues related to two to three regulations. “Yet, our pay scale is equal to others. We have been demanding the state government to enhance the pay of everyone in the department based on their nature of work.”