No compassionate ground posting in school dept since 2016; 5K families hit

FOR the 5,500 families waiting for jobs on compassionate grounds in the Tamil Nadu school education department, the ordeal seems unending as the department has not appointed even one person under the category in the last eight years across the state.

- N DHAMOTHARAN

FOR the 5,500 families waiting for jobs on compassionate grounds in the Tamil Nadu school education department, the ordeal seems unending as the department has not appointed even one person under the category in the last eight years across the state. Family members of employees who die in harness are given job opportunities under compassionate grounds by the government, but no appointment order was issued to the family members of such employees in school education department after July 11, 2016, shows an RTI reply received by TNIE.

As per an order of the Supreme Court, government appointments on compassionate grounds should be made within six months of the staffer's death, but the department has failed to comply with this order, sources said.