In support of their various demands, the State Government employees organised a massive demonstration at Parade ground here on Friday. Braving heat wave like conditions thousands of employees under the banner of Uttarakhand employees, teachers, outsource workers joint forum assembled at the parade ground and expressed their determination to continue the agitation till their demands are accepted. To discuss the future work plan for the agitation the executive committee of the Joint Forum would meet on May 20.
Addressing the huge congregation of the workers, the chief convener of the Joint forum, Thakur Prahlad Singh said that a memorandum listing 13 demands was presented to the Chief Minister and Chief Secretary on May 3. On May 15, the CS invited the delegation of the Forum in which discussions for over two hours on various demands were held. Singh said that CS assured that all the demands of the employees would be looked into.
The convener of the Forum, Ravi Pachori said that the gate meetings and the protests are eliciting huge response from the employees. The spokesperson of the Joint Forum Ram Chandra Raturi said that the government should accept the demands of the employees without any further delay.
The employees want that they should get the benefit of three Assured Career Progression (ACP) which is mentioned in the manual of department of personnel.
The Joint Forum demands that the teachers on Grade Pay Rs 4600 should be provided a basic salary structure of Rs 17140. 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. The employees also want they should be given benefit of all allowances as per the provision of VII pay commission.
The state government employees want that they should be brought under U- health card scheme and pending arrears under VII pay commission should be paid without delay. The Joint Forum is of the view that all 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. They are against the Indu Kumar Pandey wage committee and want it dissolved.