Ministerial staff protests, seeks demands fulfilled

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, January 16

The Punjab State Ministerial Service Union, Bathinda, on Thursday staged a protest against the state government over their long-pending demands. They also threatened to hold the next agitation at the District Administrative Complex. Even members of the pensioners’ association were also present in the protest.

Later, a union delegation, led by district president Kewal Bansal, gave a demand letter to ADC Sukhpreet Singh Sidhu regarding their demands.

While raising slogans against the state government, state leader Megh Singh Sidhu and Kewal Bansal said the Punjab Government was deliberately delaying the implementation of the recommendations of the Pay Commission, which would not be tolerated by the union. They said in their next protest, they would burn copies of the Congress government manifesto, in which Capt Amarinder Singh had made promises to the people to give them certain benefits.

They also stated that next course of action would be decided in the state committee meeting which is to be held on January 19.

It is worth mentioning that the union has been continuously staging a protest demanding salaries on time, implementation of equal pay for equal work law, withdrawal of move to levy Rs 200 as development tax, implementation of cashless health scheme, probation period to be treated as qualifying service, regularisation of the services of contractual employees and implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations and restoration of the old-pension scheme for those recruited after 2004.