Members of Saiyukt Morcha Sthaniya Nagar Nikaya Karmchari Sangh, stages protest in support of their 33 point demands and also have decided to boycott work from January 28 to February 1.
Speaking on the occasion State President of the union, Bhupendra Rawat said that the demands are consistently being ignored by the State Government. He alleged that the authorities are discriminating against the local bodies' employees and even their basic demands have not been fulfilled. He stated that if their demands are not met with, they would sit on a strike from February 3. Their major demands include regularisation of employees working on daily wages basis, promotion of the employees, removing the existing differences in the pay scale of the local bodies' employees and other State Government employees, restructuring the current structure of the municipal corporations and increasing the pay of the employees accordingly among other demands.
Among those present on the occasion were office bearers of the union Nam Bahadur Thapa, Mehraj Ahmed, Narendra Singh, Dl Shah, Vivek Saxena and others.