Work Charged employees protest pay denial
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 07 2012:
Work Charged employees of engineering departments such as PWD, PHED, IFCD and Minor Irrigation staged sit-in-demonstration inside PWD complex, to protest non payment of 18 months salary.
The protestors also cautioned the Government of Manipur that further intense agitation would be launched in case the issue is not resolved at the earliest.
The protest was held from 10 am till 4 pm under the banner of Joint Co-ordinating Committee of Engineering Department.
According to Committee office bearers, Work Charged employees of the four engineering departments have not been paid salaries since April 2010 and their previous appeal to the Government for releasing the monthly emoluments have fallen on deaf ears.
Informing that the employees abstained from duty since yesterday as talks with the Government representatives failed to bring about a solution, they maintained that the agitation would be sustained till their demand for pay is resolved.
With regard to their future plan of action the Committee members asserted that supply of drinking water might ceased in the coming days in case the problem persist.
They also did not rule out possibility of suspending electricity supply as a part of their agitation.
It is said that inspite of employees in many state Government departments already entitled to 6th Pay Commission scale the work charged employees enjoy the 5th Pay Commission scale.