Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 30:
Casual employees working in Public Health Engineering Department has decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike from November 3 demanding paying of back-log wages for the last four/five years.
A decision to this effect was arrived at during a meeting of Public Health Engineering Department Workers and Employees Organization, Manipur yesterday.
The meeting took serious note of the indifferent attitude of the Government towards the plight of the casual employees who have been denied salaries for the last many years.
The meeting decision to go on an indefinite hunger strike from November 3 if the demand of the employees is not complied within November 2.It is said that Gauhati High Court had earlier given a directive for paying off the pending salaries to the employees, but the State Government has not complied with the order till date.