MC holds meet with sangharsh committee

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 23

Members of the committee, constituted by Mayor Karamjit Singh Rintu, held a meeting with the leaders of the Sanjhi Sangharsh Committee of MC employees to sort out the issue of auto workshop employees here on Saturday.

The committee was led by Senior Deputy Mayor Raman Bakshi, councillors Mahesh Khanna, Vikas Soni and Parmod Babla. The union leaders, including Vinod Bitta, Surinder Tona, Ashu Nahar, Raj Kumar Raju and Raj Kalyan, participated in the meeting.

The committee members listened to the employees’ viewpoints and reserved their decision for January 28. The committee would discuss with the Mayor before announcing its decision.

The union leaders raised a question over the MC’s move to discard the worn-out vehicles without providing any substitute. Ashu Nahar, one of the union leaders, said the MC had deployed sanitary inspectors, superintendents and other staff to keep a check on the misuse of vehicles and consumption of fuel. They never constituted any committee for other embezzlement issues but here they want to pressurize class four employees.

They claimed that if the MC did not roll back its decision, the union would go on an indefinite strike.

“We don’t want to create any problem on the eve of Republic Day, so the next step would be announced on January 28 after the decision of the committee,” said Nahar.