Intensifying their agitation for reinstatement of their services, the association of office/laboratory assistants of the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) staged a protest outside the residence of State Education Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani on Wednesday.
The members of the association gathered at the agitation site at Old Raipur bus stand and marched to the residence of Naithani. The association members raised slogans outside the residence of minister and demanded immediate reinstatement of their jobs.
A delegation of the association handed over their memorandum to one of the staff members of the Minister in his absence. The agitators demanded that the State Government should immediately take back the order terminating the services 1258 office/ laboratory assistants of RMSA.
The State Government decided to terminate their services as the Central Government decided to stop funding their salaries under RMSA. To press for their demands five members of the association PC Ramola, Brijesh Panwar, Damodar Bhatt, Vinod Rana and J l Dhasmana are sitting on an indefinite fast at the agitation site from March 29.
The association got a boost when Doiwala MlA Hira Singh Bisht, Pratap Nagar MlA Vikram Singh Negi and congress leader Surya Kant Dhasmana visited the agitation site on Wednesday. These leaders assured their support to the cause of the association and said that would raise their issue with the State Government. It is pertinent to mention that the association has undertaken Buddhi Shuddhi Yagya, Secretariat march and burning of effigies of BJP MPs in last three days.