Enthused by the response to the empty liquor bottle buyback scheme implemented by Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) in select districts at its instance, the Madras High Court on Thursday directed the corporation to consider the feasibility of engaging additional manpower on contract basis to handle those bottles.
Justices N. Sathish Kumar and D. Bharatha Chakravarthy issued the direction after an employees union of Tasmac filed a writ petition complaining that its members were being overburdened with the additional work of collecting and storing the empty liquor bottles despite them already being made to work from 12 noon to 12 am everyday.
The judges suggested that the income generated by Tasmac by selling the empty liquor bottles as well as the unclaimed amount, from ₹10 that it charges over and above the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) for every liquor bottle to ensure the return of empty bottles for refunding the money, could be used for engaging additional manpower.
