The Statewide indefinite pen down strike of Parvatiya Patwari Mahasangh ( Revenue police cadre employees) in support of 12 point demand entered its 20th day on Monday.
All the revenue and revenue police works of the revenue area have been totally paralysed due to the ongoing strike. All the members of the Mahasangh in Pauri district are on a pen down strike and staging dharna near Collectorate in district headquarter Pauri and other parts of the district.
On the other hand the State Government has not taken any step towards meeting the demands of the Patwari cadre.leaders of the district unit of the Mahasangh stressed that the indefinite strike will continue till the demands of the federation are met. The federation leaders alleged that the Government had maintained an indifferent attitude towards the demands of the revenue police cadre employees.
The main demand of the federation is that the Government cancel its to fill 10 per cent posts in Patwari cadre by promoting the collectorate ministerial employees to the post of Nayab Tehsildar and said that it is injustice towards the revenue police employees.
The other demands of the Mahasangh include cent per cent promotion from the Patwari cadre to fill all the vacant posts of Nayab Tehsildar; facilitating the reorganisation of revenue inspector area; facilitating direct recruitment to fill the vacant posts of Revenue Sub Inspectors; providing a jeep each to revenue inspectors and a motorcycle each to revenue sub inspectors for conducting police work.
Their other main demands include nutritious food allowance and revision of their allowances. They are also demanding that the DPC of Nayab Tehsildars and assistant land acquisition officers should be conducted and that the remuneration of Gram Suraksha Prahari should be increased.
The district unit of the federation stressed that the indefinite strike will continue till the government moves towards a proactive redressal of their demands. In the district headquarter Pauri, the Patwari revenue police cadre employees have been staging sit in demonstration regularly in front of the collectorate for 20 days now.