The employees of Oriental Insurance, National Insurance, United India Insurance and New India Assurance organised protest rallies and meetings in front of all regional offices, including at Bhubaneswar, on September 13 with several demands, including revised scale of pay.
They are led by GOIAIA national president SS Mohapatra,Gajendranath Bar, Niranjan Parida, SK Majhi, Anil Biswal among others.
According to the aggrieved employees, about 50,000 of them working all over India are yet to receive revised scale of pay pending since August 1, 2017 while the nationalised bank and Life Insurance Corporation employees have already received their revised pay with more than 15% hike to basic a year before.
The forum has demanded 15% hike in pay scale on basic, 30% hike of family pension, pension to all employees those who have joined after 01.04.2010, management's contribution of 14% to future saving fund of employees coming under NPS scheme, among others. Besides, it opposed new KPI Scheme and privatisation of Government PSUs.