After the 72-hour strike by Government employees under the banner of coordination committee between January 21 to 23, Haryana Government Friday constituted three joint committees to look into the grievances of the employees.
It was decided in a joint meeting of Haryana Government officials and leaders of the employees at Chandigarh under the chairmanship of chief secretary SC Choudhary.
After the meeting, Choudhary said that three committees would be constituted regarding implementation of labour laws, regularisation of contractual employees and demands concerning power department. He added that the representatives of employees union have also been included as members in these committees. These committees would submit its reports at the earliest and would meet on February 1 for discussions on the report. After the submission of committees report, the next meeting of the Government with the union representatives would be held on February 15.
Dharamvir Singh Phogat, president of Sarv Karamchari Sangh said that they will wait for the joint meeting and action by the Government till next meeting, then our executive will decide about our further course of action.
However, in the meeting state government officials made it clear that there were 42 cases registered against the government employees during their strike and 29 cases have been withdrawn, however, rest of the case which are of criminal nature would not be withdrawn.
Principal Secretary to Chief Minister SS Dhillon said that employees should dedicatedly perform their duties keeping in view the interest of the people. It is their responsibility to ensure the supply of essential services to the people. He said that union representative have clarified in the meeting that they did not want to disrupt the supply of essential services during the strike and regretted for any inconvenience caused to people due to their strike call, he added.