Members of the Odisha State Government Employees’ Coordination Committee led by president Akhaya Kumar Jena on Monday submitted a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister Naveen Patanik, to the Sub-Collector, Bhubaneswar, pressing for fulfilment of a six-point charter of demands.
The demands included revision of house rent allowance (HRA), paying revised pay, regularising retrenched, outsourcing, data entry and contractual employees, filling up posts lying vacant in Government offices and educational institutes and introducing a permanent pension system.
The members threatened to hold a mass demonstration if the demands were not fulfilled by September. Among others, committee secretary Kahnu Charan Mallick, advisor Ketra Mohan Das, Laxmidhar Panda, Saroj Kumar Nayak and Bijay Kumar Nayak were present.