Implement 7th Pay Panel, Insist Staff
As many as two hundred members of the
Confederation of Pondicherry State Government Employees Associations
were arrested here, on Wednesday, for attempting to picket the Chief
Secretariat demanding the implementation of the yet-to-be submitted
seventh pay commission’s recommendations with retrospective effect.
In the meantime, the confederation leaders urged the Central government to announce an interim relief.
Apart from seeking the implementation of
its recommendations from the date of the constitution of the
commission, the agitators also put forth a 34-charter of demands that
included the filling up of vacancies in all the departments, replacement
of the new pension scheme with the old one, setting up of grievance
cell in all departments and cadre restructuring to improve chances of
promotion for employees.
The panel set up on January 1, 2014 by
the previous UPA government will take at least 18 to 24 months to submit
its final recommendations.
Puducherry government has 25,000
employees, who enjoy similar service conditions as that of their Central
government counterparts.
Earlier, members of the confederation
took out a rally. As the police did not allow them to proceed beyond the
Head Post office, they began demonstrating then and there. After a
while, all the agitators were arrested and removed.
The protest was led by Seetharaman.
Office bearers of the association C H Balamohanan and Premadasan were
among those, who took part in the rally and the subsequent agitation.
Meanwhile, the joint action committee
members of the municipality and commune panchayat workers associations,
affiliated to the AITUC held a demonstration in front of the Local
Administration Department demanding the regularisation of the part time
and daily rated employees who are working for more than 15 years.
They also urged the administration to
provide Deepavali bonus for part time employees, and make appointments
on compassionate grounds to the relatives of those who died.
The joint action committee had planned three phased agitation to press these demands.
Wednesday’s first phase agitation was
led by AITUC leader V S Abishegam. The second and third phase of the
agitation would be held near Raj Nivas here on November 18 and 25
respectively
Source: http://www.newindianexpress.com/
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