Bathinda, February 11
Members of the 13 different unions of the Punjab government employees today held a convention against the state government at the Grain Market today.
Protesting against the government to discuss their 16 main demands, the union members had decided to take out a protest rally in the city. However, before the rally could be taken out, the district administration intervened and assured the agitating unions of getting a meeting fixed with Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal.
CM Badal will meet the union members on February 18. Before that, the union members, under the Punjab and UT Employees Union Sangharsh Committee, are expected to meet the a senior government official on February 13.
The unions are objecting to the government’s move of putting a full stop on removing anomalies in the salaries and allowances of its employees, pushing back annual promotion by 12 months, dividing pensions into two groups of employees retired before and after December 2011, slashing pension commuting rates from 40 per cent to 20 per cent, ban imposed on permanent recruitments and exploitation in the name of contract system.
Besides, the unions are also opposing privatisation of education, health, transport, power, water supply as well as outsourcing various works. They said as more than one lakh vacancies are lying vacant, the existing workers are overburdened with work. They are also demanding fixation of minimum wages for ASHA workers, Anganwari staff and midday meals staff.
The representatives of different unions who participated in today’s meeting included Prof Jaipal Singh from the College Lecturers’ Association, Nirmal Singh Dhaliwal from the PRTC Workers’ Union, Gurcharan Singh Chahal from the Aided School Teachers’ Union, Shyam Lal Sharma and Lakhan Ram Maur from the PSEB Employees Union, Ranjit Singh Hans from Chandigarh Employees Federation, Kartar Singh Pal from Punjab and the UT Action Committee, Gurmail Singh Chandar from SC/BC Teachers’ Union, Jaswant Singh Sandhu from Thein Dam Workers Union, Om Prakash from the Suwidha Centre Employees’ union, Balbir Saini from ITI Union and Chandan Grewal from Safai Mazdoor Federation.
Members of the 13 different unions of the Punjab government employees today held a convention against the state government at the Grain Market today.
Protesting against the government to discuss their 16 main demands, the union members had decided to take out a protest rally in the city. However, before the rally could be taken out, the district administration intervened and assured the agitating unions of getting a meeting fixed with Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal.
CM Badal will meet the union members on February 18. Before that, the union members, under the Punjab and UT Employees Union Sangharsh Committee, are expected to meet the a senior government official on February 13.
The unions are objecting to the government’s move of putting a full stop on removing anomalies in the salaries and allowances of its employees, pushing back annual promotion by 12 months, dividing pensions into two groups of employees retired before and after December 2011, slashing pension commuting rates from 40 per cent to 20 per cent, ban imposed on permanent recruitments and exploitation in the name of contract system.
Besides, the unions are also opposing privatisation of education, health, transport, power, water supply as well as outsourcing various works. They said as more than one lakh vacancies are lying vacant, the existing workers are overburdened with work. They are also demanding fixation of minimum wages for ASHA workers, Anganwari staff and midday meals staff.
The representatives of different unions who participated in today’s meeting included Prof Jaipal Singh from the College Lecturers’ Association, Nirmal Singh Dhaliwal from the PRTC Workers’ Union, Gurcharan Singh Chahal from the Aided School Teachers’ Union, Shyam Lal Sharma and Lakhan Ram Maur from the PSEB Employees Union, Ranjit Singh Hans from Chandigarh Employees Federation, Kartar Singh Pal from Punjab and the UT Action Committee, Gurmail Singh Chandar from SC/BC Teachers’ Union, Jaswant Singh Sandhu from Thein Dam Workers Union, Om Prakash from the Suwidha Centre Employees’ union, Balbir Saini from ITI Union and Chandan Grewal from Safai Mazdoor Federation.
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