Team News Riveting
Raipur, August 1
Over 450,000 employees and gazetted officials in Chhattisgarh will resort to indefinite strike from August 22 in support of their pending demands.
The mantralaya staff will also join the indefinite strike while they were reluctant in the five-day strike that was called between July 25 and 29. Over 80 associations of Chhattisgarh government employees and officials on Sunday met to give the final shape to the proposed stir.
The associations decided to resort to indefinite strike from August 22. The notice to this effect would be given to Chief Secretary Amitabh Jain later today.
The state government employees are agitating in support of their demands that included 34 percent dearness allowance (DA), house rent allowance and seventh pay scale at par with the central government. At present, they are getting 22 per cent DA.
The divisional convenor of Chhattisgarh employees-officers federation, Ajay Tiwari said there had been a discrimination in the DA and they had been the suffers. “The DA of MLAs increases twice in a year,” he said, adding that the IAS officers were getting 34 per cent while state-run power company employees were drawing 28 per cent DA. The pensioners had to satisfy with 17 per cent DA, Tiwari said.
“We are getting 22 per cent DA that is 12 per cent less than the central government employees,” he added. Why the state government is discriminating with its employees and officers? he quizzed.
What fumed the employee associations is the state government order issued on July 29 to cut the five-day salary of employees who went on strike. The association would be burning the copies of the notification today as a mark of protest.
