Employees of the Uttarakhand Transport Ministerial Employees Union (UTMEU) continued their strike on the second day in support of their pending demand regarding promotions of the RTO employees.
As per the employees of the union around 90 percent post of the senior assistants are lying vacant in the department after the last year's promotions of the senior assistants.
Employees said that they had meetings with the senior officials many times but to no avail. Their demands were repeatedly ignored by the administration. Agitated employees threatened that if their demands were not fulfilled within one week they would be forced to intensify their protest. Among the protesters were Jiten Thakur, BD Joshi, Sushma Choudhary, Sanjeev Mishra, Mukul Agrawal, Manoj Pathak, Yashveer Singh Bisht and many others.