Tamil Nadu

Plea to fill vacancies

TAMBARAM: Staff of the St. Thomas Mount-Cum-Pallavaram Cantonment Board staged a demonstration on Wednesday urging the Board and the State government to fill vacancies in schools and hospitals run by it.

The staff, who are members of the Cantonment Board Employees Union of All India Trade Union Congress , said there were at least 30 vacancies for the post of sanitary workers for more than four years now. Owing to shortage of sanitary workers, collection and disposal of garbage operations was severely hampered, causing hardships to residents living in this local body. Further, there was shortage of doctors and medical staff in the hospitals run by the Cantonment Board at Pallavaram and St. Thomas Mount.

In the schools run by the Board in the two places (Pallavaram and St. Thomas Mount), vacancies for the posts of 30 teachers were yet to be filled.

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