Works at collectorate, Tehsils and other Government offices were affected as the Collectorate employees under the banner of Uttarakhand Collectorate Ministerial Employee Union (UCMEU) continued with their boycott of works stir in several districts for the second consecutive day on Wednesday.
However, a thaw is likely as the State revenue secretary met the leaders of the agitating union on Wednesday. Their demands including reserving posts in the collectorate for Ministerial employees.
The agitators claimed that no work has been done on the second day too as part of the agitation in the Collectorate and Tehsils.
UCMEU leader Rajendra Kumar said that a meeting was held with Harbans Chugh, revenue secretary, at the Secretariat on Wednesday and issues related to ministerial employees were discussed. “The meeting ended on a positive note as he gave us assurances regarding our demands. The employees would be informed of what transpired during the meeting and maybe, we would call of the stir on Thursday,” he said.
In Dehradun, the agitators led by an association member Rajendra Kumar gathered at the Collectorate premises and sloganeered against the state Government. Kumar said that their demands include 10 per cent seat for the ministerial employees be kept reserved through promotion for the posts of Nayab Tehsildars and immediate promotion of administrative officials on the vacant posts pending in the department. Reformation of the collectorate departments and qualification of ministerial employees being kept graduation in place of intermediate are among the other demands