Infuriated over the callous approach of the ONGC administration for not fulfilling their pending demands, scores of contractual employees staged protest at the ONGC office in Dehradun on Thursday.
The agitators also threatened to intensify their agitation if their demands are not met by the ONGC administration in the given time frame. Scores of contractual employees under the banner of ONGC Contractual Employees Union gathered at ONGC gate, today morning and shouted anti department slogans. The agitators lamented that the despite submitting memorandum highlighting their demands to higher officials, the administration has failed to take effective steps for redressing their grievances.
The agitators cleared if their pending demands which include gratuity, group insurance, accidental insurance, job guarantee are not fulfilled then the association members will stage intense protest in the near future. later, a delegation of the agitation met General Manager DD Misra and apprised him about the problem being faced by the association members. The delegation lamented that the despite announcement made by the CMD of ONGC in last year, the administration is not taking any effective steps for fulfilling their year long pending demands.
After receiving assurance from the officials, the association members have decided to call off their agitation and further threatened to intensify their agitation in the near future, if their demands are not met by the administration in the near future. HS Bisht, president, ONGC Contractual Employees Union, Anil Kumar, secretary, Sandeep Kumar, Ramesh Nautiyal, Mukesh Sharma and many more were present.