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Salary Looted in TN: Workers Lose ₹90 Crore a Year
The New Indian Express Dharmapuri
|June 06, 2025
In a case of systematic corruption that's been going on for years, nearly ₹90 crore is allegedly being looted every year by officials and contractors of the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board through an organised racket of underpayment to contract staff across the state.
According to a complaint filed last month by the Tirunelveli-Tenkasi Bharathiya TWAD Board Contract Labourers Union to the MD of the Board, Kiran Gurrala, while the minimum wage fixed for nearly 12,000 labourers working in Combined Water Supply Schemes (CWSSs) across TN is ₹15,401, they are actually being paid only between ₹7,500 and ₹9,800 per month, a sh
This story is from the June 06, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Dharmapuri.
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