Employees hold demonstration, burn effigy of Punjab govt.
Bahadurjeet Singh /Rupnagar
Employees of various departments held a demonstration and burnt the effigy of the Punjab government to protest against the alleged failure of the government to fulfill the promise made with the employees regarding their demands in the budget.
Punjab Subordinate Services Federation Ropar President Sukhdev Singh Surtapuri, PSEB Employees Federation AITUC) Punjab General Secretary Comrade Narinder Saini District AITUC Ropar President Radhey Sham, Secretary Ranjit Singh Gill, Balwinder Singh Punjab Roadways, Kamaljit Singh, Rajinder Singh, Banwari Lal Mattoo, Harinder Bala and Government School Teachers leader Jagmohan Singh, Manjit Kumar , Mehar Singh, Harbans Singh, Bajinder Kumar Rajinder Singh, Surjit Lal,. Paramjit Singh Bains and Kuldeep Baba said that the Punjab Government has committed a great betrayal with the employees .
They said that in the election it was said that with the formation of Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) government in Punjab demands of the employees including payment arrears of pay commission of employees, rectification of anomalies of pay commission, providing arrears of the DA , implementation of the old pension scheme,regularisation of contractual employees, would be met but budget presented by the Finance Minister, has disappointed the employees.,who have been overlooked in the budget.
They said that the government should have announced a minimum wage of Rs. 26000 per month. The announcement to regularise 36000 contract workers is also a big deception because the AAP came with the promise that all kinds of contract workers would be made permanent. The number of contract workers is more than 2 lakh. There is no clarity about conditions for the regularisation of 36,000 contract employees
There is no mention of regularizing the services of Anganwadi, Asha workers and mid-day meal workers and no increase in their wages.
They said that Aam Aadmi Party should learn a lesson from its humiliating defeat at the Sangrur Lok Sabha.by -election and party should fulfill its promises and sand with the Punjabis and the workers and the poor.
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