Overview
- The state announced the 25% salary increase on Tuesday, with assistant salesmen raised to ₹17,925, salesmen to ₹19,413 and supervisors to ₹22,313.
- The government allocated about ₹550.72 crore for TASMAC salaries and said the hike will add roughly ₹110.74 crore to annual expenditure.
- Employees' State Insurance coverage will be extended to TASMAC staff and licences for about 2,320 attached bars have been extended for two months while fresh tenders are prepared.
- Officials reported 40 suspensions for selling above the MRP and warned that repeated overcharging could lead to dismissal as part of stepped-up enforcement.
- TASMAC has placed a separate proposal before its board to regularise more than 23,000 contract workers and consider raising the retirement age to 60, a move that would respond to two decades of worker demands if approved.