Hundreds of diploma engineers engaged in various departments of the State Government like Water Resources, Works, Urban Development, Rural Development, Energy, Agriculture, Steel & Mines and Panchayati Raj (PR), under the banner of the Odisha Diploma Engineers’ Service Association (ODESA), on Friday decried the State Government’s apathy towards their demands.
Staging a demonstration in front of the Assembly here, they threatened that if implementation of restructured cadre rule for diploma engineers and regularisation of services of contractual diploma engineers do not materialise within one month then the 8,000 diploma engineers would intensify their agitation.
later, a delegation of the Odisha Diploma Engineers’ Service Association (ODESA) met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in his Assembly chamber and submitted a memorandum to him.
The diploma engineers have been demanding creation of engineering cadre in PR Department, besides regularisation of jobs.