Concede
employees demands
Sir,
The stand
taken by the Govt., over the long pending
demands of low paid employees is nothing
but short off rubbing salt on their
wounds. To launch strikes, dharnas,
hunger strikes is no vocation with him
but a compulsion that forces him to adopt
the strategy to awaken the Govt. from
their deep slumber for justice. Spiraling
prices on day to day consumable
commodities, steep rise on POL, colossal
price variation, inexplicable price rise
in medicines, when clubbed together
leaves no choice but to knock the doors
for succor. It looks absurd and
ungenerous to discriminate them from the
employees of center and other states who
have since long been provided with the
due demand. The disparity and
discrimination is unjustified.
The
Government employee is the pillar of the
state and to keep him ill- fed is
travesty of justice.
Desperate
situation call for desperate action. It
is high time that the Government
understands the plight of employees,
pensioners to free them from economic
insecurity. It is an obligation for the
leaders and bureaucrats to concede their
genuine demands as early possible.
The action
spelt out by the Finance Minister to
constitute a three member committee to
identify the grievance is a belated
action when this exercise should have
been taken long back to address their
grievances. Any way better late than
never. The employees/pensioners demand
includes.
* Release
of 2% and 3% D.A. from January and July
2004.
* Merger
50% D.A with basic pay.
* Medical
allowance Rs.500/- instead Rs.100/-.
*
Mediclaim insurance policy.
Yours
etc...
Rishi Mahajan
Via e-mail
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