Tasmac mulls transfer counselling for 24K staff

First-of-its kind initiative aims at preventing irregularities; those working for over 10 years in an outlet to be shifted

- S GURUVANMIKANATHAN @Chennai

FOR the first time since it became the sole retail vendor of alcohol in the state in 2003, the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) has commenced work for a state-wide transfer counselling to rationalise the deployment of its roughly 24,000 sales staff in the 4,826 retail outlets it runs.

Tasmac officials said the intent behind the move is to streamline the operations through effective deployment of staff based on the sales volumes of the outlets and to prevent scope for irregularities, especially by those working in the same outlets for several years. The sales staff include salesmen and supervisors.

A senior official told TNIE the shops have been divided into four categories based on their daily sales volume - above ₹10 lakh, between ₹5 lakh and ₹10 lakh, between ₹2 lakh and ₹5 lakh, and below ₹2 lakh.