₹10 overcharge: At TASMAC outlets, low-paid workers bear cost of administrative failure
TASMAC employees in Tamil Nadu are facing scrutiny for overcharging customers by ₹10 above the maximum retail price. Workers like S. Vijayabaskar express frustration as they bear the brunt of administrative failures and irregularities in the system. The situation has led to protests and a significant number of shop closures across the state.
- ▪TASMAC employees are being accused of charging ₹10 above the maximum retail price, leading to public outcry.
- ▪Many workers report that the irregularities in TASMAC operations force them to absorb additional costs.
- ▪As of May 23, 436 out of 717 TASMAC outlets have been shut down due to various issues.
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S. Vijayabaskar has spent 23 years behind a TASMAC counter in Pudukkottai. He has absorbed the ordinary indignities of the trade — the abusive drunk, the 10-hour shift, an occupation nobody mentions at a wedding. But nothing in two decades prepared him for the question his Class 8 son asked recently, after a fortnight of watching television: could his father quit and drive an auto-rickshaw instead?The boy had seen the media coverage: the FIRs, the social media vigilantes filming through shop windows, and the new Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government moving against TASMAC employees for charging ₹10 above the maximum retail price (MRP). He had imbibed how these men were being spoken about.
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