Furious over the callous approach of the State Government for not fulfilling their year-long pending demands of agitators, Uttarakhand Diploma Engineers’ Association has also threatened to intensify their agitation in the near future.
Addressing the gathering of agitators, Naveen Kandpal, State president, Uttarakhand Diploma Engineers Mahasangh lamented that despite the fact the memorandum was given many times to officials but they are not accepting the association’s demand and the members are in a mood of decisive show, this time.
It is to be noted that the employees from Government departments including PWD, Jal Sansthan, Peyjal Nigam, Rural Engineering Service, Irrigation Asian Development Bank funded projects are staging protest to fulfill their year-long 21 pending demands. Hike in the grade pay of junior engineers, hike in vehicle allowance, revise the salary of junior engineers, centralisation of Peyjal and Jal Sansthan, ban on outside nodal agency etc. are among the pending demands of Association. Harish Nautiyal, Alok Srivastava, Naveen, Deepak, BN Uniyal, Vipul Raturi and many more were present.