Hundreds of employee representatives of the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) and Large Area Multi-Purpose Societies (LAMPS) under the banner of the All Odisha Cooperative Societies Employees’ Federation met the Chief Minister’s Private Secretary on Tuesday for fulfiling their five-point charter of demands.
Members under the leadership of Lingaraj Mala, Niranjan Sahoo demanded declaring all PACS and LAMPS members as Government employees with the Government bearing their salaries, fifty per cent fund should come to the society fund from the society’s paddy, black gram and green gram commission.
The demands also include that one per cent interest which the society gets on the deposits should come to the fund and others.
Among others, Sridhar Kumar Choudhury, Arun Uday Pratra, Radashyam Samal, Pratap Kuar, Sailendra Narayan Swain, Harishchandra Dasmahapatra, Nursingha Parida and Sibani Sahu were present.