The Statewide indefinite pen-down strike of Parvatiya Patwari Mahasangh (Revenue police cadre employees) in support of 12 point demands entered its third day on Friday.
All the revenue and police work of the revenue area has come to a standstill due to this strike.
All the members of the PPM in Pauri district are on a pen-down strike and staging dharna near Collectorate in district headquarter Pauri, in Tehsil campus at Kotdwar and in Srinagar.
Office bearers of the district unit of the federation stressed that the indefinite strike will continue till their demands of are met.
In the sit in demonstration site near the collectorate campus Pauri on Friday a meeting was held in which State president of the PPM Rampal Singh Rawat, District president Harish Chandra Pandey and others alleged that the Government has maintained an apathetic attitude towards the revenue police employees cadre and the Government decision to give fill 10 per cent posts of Nayab Tehsildars by promoting the collectorate ministerial employees is injustice towards the revenue police employees.
The PPM is demanding that all the vacant posts of the Nayab Tehsidars should be filled by promoting members of the Patwari cadre.
The federation is also demanding reorganisation of revenue inspector area, direct recruitment to fill the vacant posts of Revenue Sub Inspectors, provision of a jeep to revenue inspectors and a motorcycle to revenue sub inspectors for conducting revenue police work.
The District president of the PPM, HC Pandey said that other demands of the federation include nutritious food allowance and the revision of allowances.
The State should also hold the DPC for Nayab Tehsildars and assistant land acquisition officers apart from which the remuneration of Gram Suraksha Prahari should be increased.
The district unit stressed that the indefinite strike will continue till the government takes proactive steps towards meeting the demands of the PPM.