Tamil Nadu police on Tuesday foiled a bid of members of the Joint Action Committee of Teachers' Organisations and Government Employees Organisations (Jacto-Geo) with the detention of over 2,000 when they tried to march towards the Secretariat in Chennai to stage a protest demanding the repealing of the new pension scheme.
With police sealing all main roads leading to the Secretariat, the protesters walked through narrow lanes to reach the Kamarajar Salai. When they attempted to proceed to the secretariat, the government employees and teachers were arrested by the police.
Over 3,000 police personnel were deployed in and around the Secretariat to prevent the members of the Jacto-Geo from staging the protest. The key demands of the employees were the repealing of the new pension scheme, settling pay arrears according to new pay commission guidelines, settling pay anomalies for secondary teachers and regularising the jobs of part-time staff and teachers.
Several hundreds of government employees descended in Chennai right from the morning. People from other districts were taken into custody at the Chennai Central, and Egmore railway stations upon their arrival.
Meanwhile, opposition parties including the DMK, Left, Congress and PMK condemned the police crackdown on agitating government employees and teachers. DMK working president MK Stalin, who met the office bearers of Jacto-Geo detained at Chintadripet, charged that the state government was apathetic towards the demands of government teachers and employees.
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- With police sealing all main roads leading to the Secretariat, the protesters walked through narrow lanes to reach the Kamarajar Salai.
- Key demands were the repealing of the new pension scheme, settling pay arrears according to new pay commission norms, settling pay anomalies for secondary teachers and regularising the jobs of part-time staff and teachers.
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