The BJP on Thursday demanded that the State Government consider all demands of employees associated with the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) at the earliest.
“All NREGA coordinators, Additional Programme Officers, GPTAs, Gram Rojgar Sevaks and Additional Computer Programmers have been sitting on dharna at district Collector’s officers from October 2 to press for fulfillment of their 14 demands. Besides, they have started sitting on a dharna at the PMG Square here. Resultantly, development process in the rural areas has been severely affected.
Hence, the State Government should consider their legitimate demands at the earliest,” demanded BJP leaders whom met the agitating employees here.
They demanded that as per the Supreme Court order they should be given equal salary for equal pay and those completing six years should be regularised.
Among others, former Minister Sameer De, Sameer Mohanty, Sajjan Sharma met agitators.