₹10 overcharge: At TASMAC outlets, low-paid workers bear cost of administrative failure
S. Vijayabaskar has spent 23 years behind a TASMAC counter in Pudukkottai. He has absorbed the ordinary indignities of the trade — the abusive drunk, the 10-hour shift, an occupation nobody mentions at a wedding. But nothing in two decades prepared him for the question his Class 8 son asked recently, after a fortnight of…