More than eight lakh employees and officers of Madhya Pradesh State Government remained on a strike on Tuesday halting work in nearly 63 departments of the Government including Government schools, colleges, municipal offices, hospitals, secretariat and other departments. Responding to the massive strike, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has assured that he would hold talks with the striking employees within three days.
Madhya Pradesh Class III Employees Federation State President Arun Dwivedi informed that the strike was joined by 72 organisations of Government employees and officers including 19 recognised and 53 unrecognised unions.
“Unity and determination among employees and officers has yielded better results as the Government is ready for direct dialogue on all our demands,” he said on Tuesday, Notably, the State Government employees and officers have been agitating since a long time for 51-point demands.
The major demands include payment of dearness allowance from the date as implemented by the Central Government, fixing a uniform retirement age for the employees, grade pay as per the
recommendations of Sixth Pay commission, regularisation of all daily wages and contract workers. The employees are also demanding implementation of the recommendations of Agrawal Pay Commission.
“We have welcomed the assurance by CM to hold talks with us. However, if the Government does not concede to our demands, all the employees will go on an indefinite strike from April 17,” Dwivedi informed.