Protest against government by the Retired

The retired conductors and the drivers are nearly seventy thousand since 2003. No retirement benefits from the government from ten years.

Chennai, Chepauk august 29,2016: The Tamilnadu government seems to have got into trouble. The drivers and the conductors from all over Tamilnadu has come on the roads for a protest against the government of Tamilnadu for their retirement benefits that has not been given from the year 2012.

Provident fund(P.F), gratuity,commutation and EL are the benefits that the government is supposed to give to the every retired citizen of Tamilnadu. But the transport department's retired people were not given all these from ten years and they had asked the government for the money or the benefits they were supposed to get. Yet they were not paid attention on the subject.

"Our benefits are used for the transport maintenance purpose by the government. They keep on telling us that they are out of the funds and will do it soon but the government has been saying this from ten years. It's hard for us survive without this",said one of the people who protested.

Almost everybody in the protest showed their agony on the present ruling government party. They say that they had got all the benefits properly during the DMK's rule and very disappointed with "amma". At present the ruling government has been discussing on the issue in the secretariat. "But we don't have any hopes that the government would agree on this. And we are very sure that we won't calm down or stop our protest until the government comes with a positive progress,"said an oldman in the group.

In these ten years, these people had done many protests and asked for their benefits in many ways but still they did not succeed. There are women too in the protest against the government who crossed their sixty years of age and yet waiting for their own benefits from the government.