State staff gear up to launch agitation

STATE GOVERNMENT employees under the banner of State Employee?s Joint Council (SEJC), are now gearing up to launch a massive agitation in support of their demands. They are demanding enhancement in house allowance and city allowance on the basis of 50 per cent DA merger in their basic salaries.

STATE GOVERNMENT employees under the banner of State Employee’s Joint Council (SEJC), are now gearing up to launch a massive agitation in support of their demands. They are demanding enhancement in house allowance and city allowance on the basis of 50 per cent DA merger in their basic salaries.

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Talking to media persons on Sunday, district president of the State Employees Joint Council Lav Kumar Singh, secretary Rajesh Pandey and senior vice-president Madan Mohan Srivastava said that a meeting of state executive council of the SEJC would be convened in Lucknow on June 18 to chalk out a comprehensive strategy to launch a statewide protest.

They said that some employees’ leaders, claiming themselves as the state president and general secretary of SEJC, were creating confusion among the state government employees to weaken the strength of employees in Uttar Pradesh.

“An employee leader SP Tiwari, who was defeated by Amarnath Yadav with the margin of 105 votes in 2004, is claming himself as the state president and misusing the banner of SEJC to weaken the employees’ unity agitation whereas BP Mishra and Ram Achal Pandey, who claimed themselves as the state general secretary and president respectively, had been retired 10 years ago”, they said.

They claimed that SEJC was the biggest recognised organisation of class third and fourth employees of state government and Amarnath Yadav and Ram Jee Awasthi were elected state president and general secretary of SEJC.