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State govt staff threaten to go on indefinite strike
MEMBERS OF State Employees? Joint Council (Uttar Pradesh) staged a massive demonstration at the district headquarters in support of their various demands here in Varanasi on Thursday.
MEMBERS OF State Employees’ Joint Council (Uttar Pradesh) staged a massive demonstration at the district headquarters in support of their various demands here in Varanasi on Thursday.
The agitated State government employees have threatened the government to go on an indefinite strike in case their demands were not entertained immediately. Employees of Public Works Department, Irrigation, Employment Exchange, Mandi, Chakbandi, Measurement, Transport, Development Authorities, Trade Tax, Mental Hospital and Health and Family Welfare participated in the demonstration.
Major demands of the irate state government employees included incorporating House Allowance in the DA Merger since April 2004, rebate on Trade Tax on purchase of two-wheelers and amount of group insurance to the tune of one lakh rupees etc.
Presiding over the demonstration, State vice-president of council, NP Singh, warned the government to fulfill their demands within 15 days otherwise they would go on an indefinite strike.
He alleged that the State government was not only reluctant to extend better facilities to its employees but also was withdrawing existing facilities.
President of Chakbandi and Lekhpal Sangh, Ajay Srivastava, eastern UP president of Fourth Class Employees’ Association, Munnu Lal Rawat, VN Upadhyay, Vikendra Pandey and Kailash Dixit exhorted the employees to be prepared for the final battle. They said that the State government was not going to entertain their demands in a simple way.
Prominent among others who addressed the demonstration included Mahima Dutt Dwivedi, State President of Gram Panchayat Sangh, Ashok Singh, DN Tiwari, president of Nagar Nigam Fourth Class Employees’ Association, Ravindra Upadhyay, GP Mishra, Rajendra Kumar, Vijay Bahadur Dubey and Kripakar Dubey.
