In a major relief for the Government and the people of the State, the proposed one day strike by thousands of employees working in different corporations and local bodies has been suspended. The decision was taken after the meeting of the leaders of different organisations with the State Chief Minister Trivendrara Singh Rawat at State secretariat on late Monday evening.
The Finance and Parliamentary affairs minister Prakash Pant, Chief Secretary S Ramaswamy and Finance Secretary Amit Negi also attended the meeting on behalf of government.
In the meeting it was agreed that the corporations who have been recommended by the high power committee headed by Chief Secretary in the meetings held on July 24 and August 1, the Government Orders for implementation of VII pay commission implementation would be released soon. It was also decided that next meetings of the high power committee would be held on September 22 and 25 and in it the decision of the remaining corporations would be taken.
The meeting was attended by the office bearers of State Corporation, local bodies, Jal Sansthan, Development Authorities, District Panchayat employee association.
The President of the association, Santosh Rawat and General Secretary Ravi Pachori and other leaders attended the meeting. Pachori later said that the proposed strike has been suspended for ten days.
The suspension of the strike by the association has also turned out to be major face saver for the BJP Government as it coincided with the visit of BJP President Amit Shah in Dehradun.
On the demands of implementation of recommendation of VII pay commission and increasing the remuneration of outsourcing and contractual workers many employee unions of State Corporation, local bodies, development authorities and district Panchayat had given a strike call on Tuesday. There are more than 80000 employees in these corporations and bodies. The operation of the buses of Uttarakhand roadways was also expected to be affected as one of three major unions has declared support for the strike. The roadways administration had imposed a ban on the leaves of its employees on September 19.