State government must stop outsourcing model of giving jobs to the unemployed, says CPI(M)

CPI(M) demands end to job outsourcing, opposes drug menace, criticizes mining proposal, and plans protests against Adani indictment.

Demanding the Tamil Nadu government to immediately stop the outsourcing model of providing jobs to the unemployed youth, Communist Party of India (Marxist) State general secretary K Balakrishnan said the recruitment must be on a permanent basis.

Speaking to media persons in Dindigul on Friday, he said that outsourcing was not only anti-labour, but it would be insecure to employees. It is not going to help the society in any way as the outsourcing agencies would be the real masters and not the government. When vacancies were there in many departments in the government and in schools and colleges and offices, the State should recruit the unemployed youth directly and give them the status of a permanent employee. The CPI(M) vehemently opposes the outsourcing method and hoped Chief Minister M.K. Stalin heeded to the request in larger public interest.

The CPI(M) leader came down heavily on the police for not being effective in curtailing drug menace. The drugs were accessible to the youth and only strict enforcement and tight vigil would stop it and save the youth from getting into the dangerous habit.

On the proposal for tungsten mining in Arittapatti near Melur in Madurai district by a subsidiary of the Vedanta group, Mr. Balakrishnan said that Forests Minister K. Ponmudy had clarified that there was no application made by the company to the State. However, he was critical of the Union government for giving permission to the company in a bio-diversity region.

Reiterating that the alliance partners within the DMK front were intact, he said that confusion existed only among the AIADMK leaders. He said that there was more than a year for the 2026 general elections to the Tamil Nadu Assembly and there was no need to go deep into it as of now. He denied to respond to speculation about some of the allies.

On the reported remarks of former AIADMK Minister Dindigul C. Srinivasan that the AIADMK had given money and seats to its allies in the past prior to the elections, Mr. Balakrishnan demanded a categorical answer and wanted Mr. Srinivasan to be specific.

When the US Department of Justice had indicted industrialist Gautam Adani on five charges, including bribes, the Union government should have arrested all the accused and demanded action as per laws immediately. The CPI(M) would stage demonstrations in this regard soon across the country. “We are in the process of discussions with the district functionaries,” he said.