To get their long pending demands accepted, the different employee organisations of Uttarakhand have joined hands to form a joint forum. On Monday, the joint forum held a gate meeting outside the Forest department headquarters. On May 18, the employees would hold Dharna at district headquarters. The Joint forum of the employees is being viewed as a pressure tactics by different employee organisations ahead of the crucial elections of Urban local Bodies (UlB) in Uttarakhand. The Secretary and convener of the Joint forum, Ravi Pachori said that 20 major employee organisations representing secretariat workers, teachers, power corporation workers, UPNl workers, forest, health, local bodies, agriculture and all other departments have joined hands.
He said that a series of gate meetings would be held outside the head offices of different departments from May 7 to 17. On May 18, Dharnas would be held in all 13 district headquarters. The leaders of the forum would submit memorandums mentioning eleven demands to the DMs on the day. Pachori said that the future course of agitation would be decided on May 18.
Major demands of the employees
1 Teachers and the employees should get the benefit of three Assured Career Progression (ACP) which is mentioned in the manual of department of personnel.
2 The teachers on Grade Pay Rs 4600 should be provided a basic salary structure of Rs 17140.
3 The ACP should be given with promotion at end of 10, 16, 26 years of service and for power corporation workers this benefit should be given at end of 9, 14 and 19 years of service.
4 The employees should be given benfit of all allowances as per the provision of VII pay commission.
5 The Class IV workers should be given grade pay of Rs 4200 under ACP and all posts declared dead in departments should be revived.
6 All employees should be brought under U- health card scheme.
7 Pending arrears under VII pay commission should be paid.
8 The female employees who have crossed the age of 50 and male workers who are more than 52 years of age should be exempted from the provision of Transfer Act.
9 The wage committee headed by Indu Kumar Pandey should be dissolved and Chief Secretary should dispose of the issues of wage disparity.