An Odisha State-level conference of the Central Government Employees’ Confederation (CGEC) on Sunday here strongly pitched for repeal of the New Pension Scheme (NPS and restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS).
INTUC national vice-president and State president, former MP Dr Rama Chandra Khuntia inaugurated the conference. Central Government Employees’ Confederation (CGEC) national general secretary and senior secretary INTUC NS Pillai presided over the conference. Pallai with consent of all participants declared the coordination committee for Odisha State as Dr RC Khuntia (president), Ramesh Chandra Sahoo (working president), SS Mohapatra and Ramesh Funugupati (senior vice president) and Sushanta Kumar Panda (general secretary).
EcoRSC general secretary and AWS-NFIR Ramesh Chandra Sahoo gave an introductory speech highlighting various problems of the Central Government employees in general and Railway men in particular.
CGEC, New Delhi chairman Dr Manjeet Singh Patel and INTUC vice president and organisational secretary, Odisha Branch SS Mohapatra deplored the anti-working class policies of the Central Government.
National organizing secretary, CGEC and national president of Indian Railway Movement for Old Pension Scheme and convener of the conference Sushanta Kumar Panda gave a detailed view on the current pension system, which is not beneficial to the employees and appealed to the Government to immediately declare the restoration of OPS.
Among others, SandhyaMohapatra, Ramesh Funugupati, Sudhir Rupji and Rajendra Kumar Sahoo spoke.