Uttarakhand Ministerial Collectorate Employees’ Union has decided to gherao the Secretariat to protest in support of its pending demands under the banner of Uttarakhand Ministerial Collectorate Employees’ Union on October 29.
Dehradun Ministerial Collectorate Employees’ Union president Rajendra Kumar expressed hope that newly appointed chief secretary N Ravi Shankar would redress their demands without delay.
He said that the union members would sit on demonstration in support of their pending demands. “Despite written assurances given by the State Government for the fulfillment of our pending demands, our concerns are yet to be redressed,” he added. The demands include reserving ten percent seats of Nayab Tehsildar for ministerial employees and re-jigging the Collectorate, among others. The union has decided to carry out a rally from Parade Ground to Secretariat on October 29, he added.
However, Dehradun district magistrate Chandresh Kumar had recently claimed that despite boycott of works by the Collectorate employees, no works in the Collectorate have been adversely affected in the district. In view of the indefinite strike convened by the ministerial collectorate employees, alternative arrangements have been put into place to redress the people’s concerns in the district.
As part of the alternative arrangements, the department officials have been deputed on some important posts to complete the work of ministerial collectorate employees, he added.