To pressurise the State Government to meet their demands, the members of different organisations including Anganwadi Workers Union, SSB Guerrilla Kalyan Samiti, BPEd Trained Unemployed Union, Uttarakhand Class Four Employees State Federation, Uttarakhand Shiksha Acharya Association and others protested at old Raipur bus station on Monday.
In addition to this, a delegation of PTA Teacher’s Union, Almora, Bageshwar and Nainital met Vidhan Sabha Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal at his residence and submitted a memorandum stating fulfillment of their pending demands.
With protesters gathering at this site, the business of vendors in the area has doubled. One vendor said that he set his shop on seeing the large number of protesters. Most protesters were purchasing tea and food items from his stall.
The agitators assembled at their respective protest site and raised anti-government slogans and demanded redressal of their grievances. The protesters warned that they will organise a rally upto Vidhan Sabha from Tuesday if government fails to address their demands soon.
The Anganwadi workers union member Anshi Bahuguna said that several memorandums stating their pending demands were submitted to the State Government but the Government has remained apathetic. Some of the union members sat on hunger strike in support of demands. Their demand include Anganwadi workers should be given allowances of Rs11,000 per month.
PTA Teachers union members met the Assembly Speaker and informed him that the employees of unaided schools have been receiving minimum allowances since 2003 from the State Government. As per Government’s order released on February 2009, PTA
teachers should be appointed. Following this, Kunjwal assured them that he would meet the Chief Minister for redressal of their grievances.