MI employees go on strike
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 19 2014:
Demanding release of monthly entitlements pending since April 2013, work charge and muster roll workers under the banner of All Manipur Minor Irrigation Department Employees' Association today staged sit-in-demonstration in front of the MI Department office complex in Lamphelpat.
According to Association general secretary H Baleshwor Singh 310 work charged and 19 muster roll workers had been serving in the department for the last many years but their salaries never paid regularly or in time.
Stating that the said workers received their last monthly entitlements in March 2013 with the pending amounts not released till date, he said the Association's demand include budgetary allocation in the next budget session.
cautioning that not fulfilling the demand might compel the Association to launch intense form of agitation, Baleshwor also did not rule out the possibility of en-mass resignation by the work charged and muster roll workers.