Retrenched workers in Pondy PWD to be reinstated on Mar3:CM

In a relief to retrenched daily wagers in the Public Works Department, Puducherry Chief Minister N.Rangasamy today announced that all the 1,311 daily wage paid employees, retrenched from their posts in 2011 in the PWD, would be reinstated on March 3.
Each of the workers being reinstated would be paid Rs 137 a day as per the norms of the Labour department and they would be engaged to carry out 'work charged schemes' operated by it, he told a hurriedly convened press conference here.
Rangasamy also said government had also decided to offer jobs on compassionate grounds to the next of kin of each of the 137 workers of PWD who had died in harness over the years. They would be appointed in the PWD on March 3, he said.

Chief Minister also announced that the government would also restore jobs to the 109 workers who were retrenched in 2011 from service in the government run Rajiv Gandhi Veterinary and Animal Sciences college here on Monday.
Retrenched employees in other departments would be reappointed in a phased manner, he said.
A spokesman of the Association of Welfare of Retrenched Workers told newsmen that the workers felt a big relief in the wake of announcement of reinstatement.

The workers had been staging protests for the last three years, demanding their reinstatement.
Rangasamy said foundation for the Rs 100 crore super-speciality hospital in Karaikal would be laid on Monday. The hospital project proposed by the Puducherry government would be funded by the ONGC under its corporate social responsibility scheme.

On the appeal made by Union Minister of State for Small Medium and Micro Enterprises Muniyappa at a function here that both he (Rangasamy) and Union Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasamy should work together keeping in mind Puducherry's development, he said the Central Minister had expressed his wish and he could not give any reply on the matter.