On the call of the Mantralaya Seva Adhikari-Karmachari Sangh, more than 1000 employees of the State Mantralaya will recite Sunderkand/ Hanuman Chalisa on Tuesday. The employees would do this recitation at Gate No. 1 of the old building of the Mantralaya to get their demands fulfilled. The union has completed all the preparations to conduct the recitation.

Union President Sudhir Nayak said that the place where the recitation is to be done will be cleaned before office hours so that purity is maintained during the recitation. All the employees will bring rolls (stands for keeping books) from their homes and for the Sunderkand recitation, Sangh colleague Dayanand Upadhyay has given 101 books to the Sangh, which will be distributed. After this, Sunderkand and Hanuman Chalisa will be recited. Nayak said that preparations for the event have been completed.

The main demands of the employees of the Mantralaya include starting the promotions which have been stopped for 9 years, fourth time scale pay, higher designation, full pension after 25 years of service like the central government, removal of anomaly of pay scale of third promotion in third time scale, among others.

According to the union, taking advantage of the lack of promotion, officers from outside are being appointed in the Mantralaya. Finance service officers have been placed on the posts of section officer and assistant section officer. Employees say that small offices got the fourth time scale, but the highest office of the state did not get this facility.

The officials of the union have promoted the movement by going table-to-table. They distributed pamphlets to the employees and appealed to them to be compulsorily present in the movement. Public relations campaign is also being run on Monday.

It is worth mentioning that earlier, to get the demands fulfilled, the employees of the Mantralaya have protested by organizing Sunderkand and working till after office hours.

Union president Sudhir Nayak and all office bearers including Rajkumar Patel, working president, Rajesh Kaul, patron, Ashish Soni, advisor, Alok Verma, secretary, Satish Sharma, chief general secretary, LS Dhurve, Dayanand Upadhyay, vice president, Harisharan Dwivedi, vice president, Dilip Soni, Sadhna Mishra, Santosh Barodiya, Naresh Soni, Deepti Bachani, Thakurdas Prajapati, Mateen Khan, Vishnu Nathani, Harish Batham, Shyam Bihari Dubey, Vikram Batham, Badami Lal, Mangal Sonavane have appealed to all ministerial officers and employees, outsourced employees, permanent employees, contingency fund employees to attend the said program.