Scores of cooperative society employees under the banner of All Odisha Cooperative Societies Employees Federation took out a rally and held a protest meeting at the lower PMG here on Wednesday demanding payment of salary as per the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, implementation of pension scheme in two months, DA as per the latest rules, house rent, health allowance, besides promotion facility.
The meeting was presided over by union’s president Haris Gourang, where many speakers condemned the apathy of the Government in mitigating the genuine problems of staff of the cooperative societies. They also alleged that the cooperative societies are being exploited by the State and Central Cooperative Banks and urged the Government to intervene in the matter. They demanded that the officials who are behind the fleecing of the cooperative societies should be taken to task.
Among others, federation’s acting president Niranjan Sahu, general secretary Sarat Kumar Sethi, lingaraj Malla, Pratap Kunar, Arunudaya Patra and Sridhar Choudhury spoke. later, Cooperation Minister Damodar Rout invited the federation members for a talk and assured them of fulfilling their demands after the Assembly session was over.
Meanwhile, the federation has decided to call off the agitation for the time being.