V. Senthilbalaji
| Photo Credit: S. Siva Saravanan
Action has been taken against a complete of 1,952 employees working within the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) on the cost of overcharging clients in the course of the retail sale of liquor, which didn’t go into the gross sales figures, Minister for Prohibition V. Senthilbalaji knowledgeable the Assembly on Monday.
Responding to considerations raised by AIADMK legislator P. Thangamani (Kumarapalayam), Mr. Senthilbalaji mentioned advantageous to the tune of ₹5 crore was imposed on these employees. Whenever motion was taken on such Tasmac employees, unions got here to their help and staged protests, the Minister mentioned and additional sought their cooperation.
During his speech, Mr. Thangamani referred to Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan’s remarks over the income generated by way of Tasmac gross sales. Mr. Rajan intervened to face by his remarks and additional underlined the necessity for end-to-end computerisation of Tasmac operations.
Mr. Senthilbalaji too joined in to help his colleague and additional recalled {that a} new tender had been finalised for the computerisation of Tasmac operations. Over considerations raised by Mr. Thangamani in regards to the revision of guideline worth of lands, Registration Minister P. Moorthy mentioned the choice to revise adopted representations.
Due to the big hole in market worth and land guideline worth, there have been sure challenges with banks granting loans to seekers and representations have been acquired on this regard, Mr. Moorthy mentioned. Mr. Rajan added that the revised guideline worth was really applied by the erstwhile AIADMK regime for about 5 years.
As for Mr. Thangamani’s considerations over three-phase electrical energy provide to farmers, Mr. Senthilbalaji mentioned the erstwhile AIADMK regime solely issued a Government Order (G.O.) however didn’t really implement it. “The G.O. says that three-phase electricity supply would be provided for 12 hours in Cauvery delta areas and for nine hours in other areas. But, we are supplying electricity for 18 hours to benefit farmers,” the Minister added.
Leader of the Opposition Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami intervened to say that the erstwhile AIADMK authorities launched three-phase energy provide round the clock to profit farmers, however the DMK authorities, which assumed workplace, didn’t proceed the scheme.
