EB workers protest, seek 40K vacant posts be filled

Coimbatore: Members of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions’ (CITU’s) Central Organisation of Tamil Nadu Electricity Employees (COTEE) on Saturday staged a protest seeking that the state fill around 40,000 postings which were vacant in Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB).
The members gathered before the TNEB office at Tatabad in the city on Saturday evening and pressed for the state to fill vacancies in around 40,000 posts such on field and in accounting departments. They said the posts should be filled with contract labourers and they should be paid Rs380 per day. They also sought that the old pension scheme should be implemented for those who had joined service after 2003.
“As the board had announced earlier, it should also appoint 2,900 candidates who have graduated from Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) for the post of field assistants,” they said. They also added that the post of field assistant was now named unfairly as ‘gangman’ and it had to be changed to ‘field assistant’.
They also sought that the committee to deliberate on pay hike be constituted soon.
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