Postal services in Odisha continued to remain paralysed for the second day on Thursday as the nearly 25,000 postal employees in the State stayed away from work as part of the nationwide strike of the postal employees demanding fulfilment of their 15-point charter of demands.
Postal Employees’ Union zonal secretary Bruhaspati Samal said their principal demands included pay revision for employees every five years as is done for other Central Government employees and implementation of the 7th Pay Commission recommendation from January 2014 instead of January 2016.
He said a clear policy for temporary postal employees and for postal employees working in rural areas, addition of basic pay in dearness allowance, pension benefits to employees recruited after January 1, 2004, removal of ban on compassionate recruitment, recruitment on vacancies, etc. were their other major demands.
Postal employees in Bhubaneswar sat on dharna in front of the post offices raising slogans in the morning. The Railway Mail Service (RMS) was also paralysed as its employees did not report for work.