The office and laboratory assistants employed as outsourcing workers under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) are staging a sit-in at the protest site in Old Raipur bus stand. These workers are demanding that their service should be extended by the education department. Addressing the agitators the President of Outsourcing employees association of RMSA, Subhash lakehra said that the contract of RMSA workers has not been extended by the education department even after 10 months of termination. He said that there are 630 employees who were posted under RMSA and they are working without salary for many months.
The congress leader Surya Kant Dhasmana visited the site of agitation and assured his full support to the demand of the association. He assured them that he would request the Chief Minister Harish Rawat to look into the justified demand of the RMSA outsourcing workers. The state government had appointed some youths as laboratory and office assistants on contract in the government schools under RMSA in the year 2013. This contract expired on March 31 this year was not renewed in current financial year. On the demand of these employees the state government assured them to extend their contract and on August 22 released a GO in which the contract of these employees was extended. However this GO is still not implemented.
The members of the association are also organizing rely hunger strike to press for their demand. On Monday Ajit Singh, Vinod Chauhan, Vimal Negi. Bishan Singh, Chandra Mohan Panwar and Vipin Rawat.