Govt employees to protest on March 17
Monday, 16/03/2015
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Chandigarh : About five lakh employees will hold a state-level rally here on March 17 to protest against the alleged failure of the state government to fulfill their demands.
“State government had failed to provide Dearness Allowance (DA) at the rate of 10 per cent of arrears from January 2014 to September 2014 and 8 months of arrears at the rate of 7 per cent from July 2014 to February 2015, several conveners of Mulazam Sangarsh Committee, an apex body consisting of six employees federation and 14 independent employees Unions, said.
The protest will be held under the banner of ‘Punjab and Union Territory Mulazam Sangarsh Committee’ against the
state government’s “failure” to implement 10-point written agreed demands.
“The government had failed to notify 6th Punjab Pay Commission agreed to on April 215, 2014, regularise the services of contract employees with three year service, introduce cashless health scheme, rmove anomalies in pay scales of various categories of employees, provide uniforms to various sections of employees,” the organizers said.
