With strike of the Government employees looming large in the State, Haryana Chief Secretary SC Chaudhary on Friday appealed to various employees’ associations and unions to withdraw their proposed strike from January 20 to 23. He said supply of essential services should not get affected and people should not suffer on account of the strike.
Chaudhary claimed that State Government has already fulfilled maximum demands of the employees and assured that the remaining demands would also be sympathetically considered. After chairing a meeting with top officials, he said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has fulfilled all the genuine demands of the employees during the Gohana Shakta Rally and these have already been implemented from January 1, 2014.
Principal Secretary to Chief Minister SS Dhillon also appealed to employees’ associations and unions not to go on strike from January 20 and ensure the supply of essential services to the people. Home Secretary PK Gupta said that the State Government has considered the genuine demands of the employees and urged them to maintain law and order situation in the State. Gupta made it clear that no anti-social elements would be allowed to take law in their hands and strict action would be taken against those who try to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere of the state during the strike. He said that adequate police force has been deployed in the State and instructions have been issued to the police administration in this regard.
The State Government directed all departments to take necessary steps to maintain law and order in the State and ensure that the essential services do not suffer on account of the strike call given by various employees
organisations. Directions have been ensured that no leave to any employee is granted during this period by any headquarter or field formation under their administrative control. It has also been directed to make contingent plan in advance to maintain no disruption in essential services like power, water, transport and health services. If anyone indulged in disruption of work, such persons should be dealt with firmly. Apart from this, it has also been directed to prepare the list of the employees found absent during this period. If any employee is found to be on unauthorised leave, the same should be intimated by the evening of each strike day.
All Additional Chief Secretaries and Principal Secretaries, Commissioners and Secretaries have been asked to ensure the strict compliance of these instructions Principal Secretary Transport, RR Jowel said that he had issued directions to all General Manager Haryana Roadways and Deputy Commissioners to ensure that normal life could not be disturbed by chakka jam during strike.