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Friday, October 16, 2015

Tamilnadu Government Employees DA Hike By 6% Orders 16.10.2015

Tamilnadu Government Employees DA Hike By 6%

Tamil Nadu government employees DA Hike by six percent. The 6% hike in dearness allowance is with effect from 1st July. This Tamilnadu Government Employees DA Hike follows the hike in DA for central government employees announced earlier this year.


Honble Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa announced 6% hike in DA on 16.10.2015 which will be applicable with retrospective effect from first July 2015 for State government staff, pensioners, teachers and family pensioners, on par with the raise announced for the Central government employees.

Tamilnadu Government Employees DA Hike benefits more than 18 lakh employees, pensioner, family pensioners, teachers. The DA raise would be applicable to all the employees, including teachers and other staff working in government-aided educational institutions, anganwadis and noon meal scheme workers, panchayat assistants and writers.

By this Tamilnadu Government Employees DA Hike, each employee salay increases a minimum of Rupees 366 / month and a maximum of Rupees 4,620 while pensioners and family pensioners would get a minimum of Rupees 183 to Rupees 2,310 / month. Tamilnadu Government Employees DA Hike By 6% would cost an additional burden of Rs 1,501 crore to the government.

Tamilnadu Government Employees DA Hike By 6% orders Press note no 106 dated 16.10.2015 were issued and available online at http://www.tn.gov.in/pressrelease. For more details download these orders from the Official website.
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50 mail runners through post offices in Mogappair West

50 mail runners through post offices in Mogappair West, Valaaravakkam and Thiruvanmiyur reached General Post Office, George Town on the occasion of celebrating National Postal Week.

On Wednesday, a team of youngsters tried to rewind the clock a bit and took Chennaiites to a bygone era when sturdy men were employed to deliver messages. Clad in khaki and white, carrying mail bags and spears, these youth walked the streets of Chennai commemorating the service of mail runners, the predecessors of the postal system. Thirty five youngsters relayed two km in the costume and covered 50 post offices on two routes — Mogappair West to General Post office and Valasaravakkam to GPO. They were honoured at a function at GPO.

“It was difficult to manoeuvre in the traffic between Saligramam and Vadapalani. Because of the period costume, people gave me surprised glances and I was even chased by a dog. I understand how mail runners braved weather and animals in the past,” said Dheena M., an entrepreneur who was a volunteer ‘mail runner’ on Wednesday.

The idea to pay tribute to mail runners came about when debut actor and entrepreneur Ram Arun Castro was researching for his upcoming movie Ottathooduvan . “I did not find much information even on the internet on these brave men who met with even fatal accidents on their way to convey messages. There were runners who ran 20 km a day carrying a lantern, a sack of letters and a spear to defend themselves,” said Mr. Castro. He mobilized a group of youth to play the role of mail runners as a tribute.

“Some people mistook us to be beggars as we tried to check for addresses,” he said. The group has also submitted a petition to the postal department to establish a statue for mail runners. There were over 1300 mail runners in the Indian postal department when the service was started in 1854.

Mervin Alexander, postmaster general, Chennai City Region, said: “Even now, we have mail carriers in places like Kodaikanal where mails have to be delivered by
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In the evening all the volunteers dressed as mail runners assembled at Chennai GPO and a felicitation was arranged. The meeting was chaired by the CPMG, TN, PMG CCR , PMG MM& BD, and DPS(HQ) and DPS(CCR).

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Controversy in Tamil Nadu as state excluded from Amazon offer, company cites legal hurdle

Winners of the contest, who shop for over Rs 299 on the Amazon app, wins one kilogram gold everyday, says the Amazon India website.

With the Amazon India’s ‘The Great Indian Festive Sale’ from October 13 to 17 enters third day, Thanthai Periyar Dravida Kazhagam (TPDK), a Tamil political party has demanded the government to take action against the company and stop their advertisements for excluding Tamil Nadu residents from the contest.

Winners of the contest, who shop for over Rs 299 on the Amazon app, wins one kilogram gold everyday, says the Amazon India website.

The online festive sale has kicked up a controversy for its eligibility criteria to participate in the event excludes residents of Tamil Nadu. Under the Official Rules published in the website, it reads that “NOTE: Residents of the state of Tamil Nadu are NOT eligible to enter or participate in this Contest.” Under the Eligibility Criteria too, the Amazon India repeats that residents of the state of Tamil Nadu are not eligible to enter or participate in the Contest.

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