Appoint General Category Welfare Commission Chairman -Dhaliwal
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ September 11,2023
The General Category Welfare Federation PSPCL/PSTCL unit has immediately sought appointment of Chairman General Category Welfare Commission at an early date so that the pending problems of the general category are solved.
A meeting of the federation was held at Patiala and attended by Jaswant Singh Dhaliwal Chairman, Kuljeet Singh Rattol secretary general, Sukhpreet Singh finance secretary, Hargurmeet Singh vice president, Gurdeep Singh Tiwana, Gurmeet Singh Bagri, Kanchan Kumar, and Amit Kumar.
It may be mentioned that the Chairman General Category Welfare Commission was constituted by the then state government in December 2021 by the then state government to look after the interests of the general category. The present government has failed to appoint the chairman and other supporting staff for the smooth functioning of the last more than one year.
The General Category Welfare Federation PSPCL/PSTCL unit has met different MLAs and submitted memorandums to them to take up the matter with the government to take steps for the functioning of the commission.
The Federation met the cabinet sub-committee appointed by the Punjab Government on April 5 this year and had detailed discussion on all the issues and they assured us that our problems will be solved after the Jullundur by-election and a meeting will be granted to discuss the various issues. But till date nothing has been done and general category persons are deeply perturbed over it.
They also demanded s not to implement the 85th amendment in the state without following the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court and to stop reservation benefits to the creamy layer amongst SC/ST employees.
Appoint General Category Welfare Commission Chairman -Dhaliwal. The Federation also demanded that 75% of all the advertised posts must be reserved for residents of Punjab. They stressed that SC/ST employees are working on more than their share quota posts and this needs to be set right by giving due representation to general category employees as per their share quota. said V K Gupta spokesperson.
