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Teachers demand facilities at par with Central employees
AS PART of their statewide agitation, members of the Employees-Teachers Coordination Committee staged a sit-in at the district headquarters here in Varanasi on Tuesday.
AS PART of their statewide agitation, members of the Employees-Teachers Coordination Committee staged a sit-in at the district headquarters here in Varanasi on Tuesday.
The employees were demanding all the service facilities at par with the Central government employees besides 50 per cent merger of DA into the Basic Salary and withdrawal of order of Compulsory Retirement for the employees of 50 years of age. The employee leaders submitted the two-point charter of their demands to the district magistrate to be forwarded to Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Addressing the dharna, Coordination Committee district president, Sitaram Singh, alleged that although the State government had promised to extend all the service facilities at par with the Central government employees besides 50 per cent merger of DA into the basic salary of its employees in November last year, the State government has yet not fulfilled its promise even after the expiry of six months of the current fiscal year.
“Apart from this, the State government has imposed a ‘black law’ of Compulsory Retirement for its employees above 50 years of age,” he said. There was unprecedented resentment among the State government employees. They are contemplating to launch a massive protest agitation in case their demands were not entertained.
Members of various employees’ organisations, including Rajya Karamchari, Sanyukt Parishad, Prathmik Shikshak Sangh, Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh, Rajya Karmachari Mahasangh, Diploma Engineer Mahasangh and UP Chaturth Shreni Karmachari Sangh participated in the dharna in support of two-point charter of their demands.
Coordination Committee coordinator Lav Kumar Singh said that all the State government employees and teachers of Uttar Pradesh would stage a massive rally in Lucknow on September 7 to mount pressure on the State government for early disposal of their demands.
