Arunachal employees on war path
Dec 12th, 2008 | By khmonish | Category: Arunachal | Email |ITANAGAR, Dec 11 2008 – About 85,000 employees in Arunachal Pradesh are keeping their fingers crossed over the State Government’s alleged apathy to implement the revised pay structure prescribed by the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.
The disgruntled employees under the banner Confederation of Service Associations of Arunachal Pradesh (CoSAAP), a conglomeration of 53 state government employees’ unions, are on agitation path to get their ‘legitimate’ rights fulfilled by the state government.
Their agitation programmes include: a mass casual leave from December 22 to December 24 and a non-cooperation movement from December 29 for an indefinite period.
Besides threatening to boycott the upcoming Assembly and parliamentary elections, an aggrieved CoSAAP decided to burn the copies of Central Civil Services rules, being implemented in the state as per Central Civil Services Rule, 1979.
It claimed the government has totally failed to revise the Central Civil Services Rule, which according to it, the CSS rules are to be revised once in every five years.
“The State Government has failed to live up to employees’ expectations. Time and again, it has turned cold shoulder to us by paying no heed to a set of demands – immediate implementation of Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, fixation of employees’ superannuation age at 60, regularization of services of contingency and work-charged employees and stoppage of contract appointment of teachers and other employees,” said Mari Angu, the president of CoSAAP.
CoSAAP, an apex body of the government employees, which earlier planned to begin the first phase of its agitation from December 11, suspended its previous plan to go with a pen-down and tool-down strike for the time being after the government coaxed the agitating employees to reconsider their agitation plan. CoSAAP served the government a deadline of eight days to come out with an assurance in ‘black and white’, towards conceding all its demands, which include implementation of Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, regularization of all contingency and work-charged (WC) employees, extension of employees’ retirement age to 60 from existing 58 years, besides withdrawal of Govt’s decision to introduce privatized pension schemes, among others.
Source : Assam Tribune
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