The agitating Indian Rural Postal Employees association got a morale booster support from the members of all India postal employees association here on Wednesday. The members of all India postal employees association remained on one day token strike on Wednesday and participated in the 8-day-long Dharna programme of their rural fellows.
The rural postal employees are on the path of agitation since last one week. Due to their strike, the postal and banking service through post offices in the rural areas is almost closed nowadays and the rural people are facing problems. The most affected persons of the villages are those who get the government pension etc. through their accounts in post offices and in this month due to this strike they had yet not got the amount.
The rural postal employees are on indefinite strike since 16th of August for the fulfillment of their charters of demand. The main demands include salary as per the permanent employees of postal department, other benefits as per permanent staffs, restarting pension scheme etc.
The leaders of Hazaribagh division association Madan Mohan Singh and Jeetendra Singh said that the open support given by all India postal employees association and their one day token strike in our support has not only boosted our moral but has also cleared that we are marching ahead on a right path. Criticizing the central government the leaders said that major portion of economic activities of rural area is carried out by us but the government treats us as second grade citizens of this country whom it pays less amount for same work. They said that now they are not going to tolerate such a duel policy and will fight with all their strength till its end.
On Wednesday due to token strike of postal employees the activities in town post offices also remained halted causing inconvenience to the people. The members of postal employees association not only participated in the dharna program but also took part in the program of burning of effigies of thePM and the FM.