CHENNAI: Contract employees under the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society (TNSACS) have renewed their demand for job regularisation, citing the ruling DMK’s 2021 State Assembly election manifesto.

The employees are engaged under the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP), which delivers HIV prevention, testing and treatment services across Tamil Nadu. They include pharmacists, laboratory technicians, staff nurses, counsellors, data managers, support staff working in ART (Antiretroviral Therapy) centres, Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTCs), district AIDS prevention and control units and community outreach programmes.

“There are around 2,400 workers in TN. Many have nearly 15-20 years of service, but they’re still on contract,” says M Chellarathan, state general secretary

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