SSA, mid-day meal staff seek regularisation of jobs

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, July 25

Members of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Mid Day Meal Office Employees’ Union held a protest in front of the residence of Cabinet minister OP Soni for the failure of his government in regularising their jobs on Sunday.

Raising slogans against the government, they reminded its leaders of the promises made to the youth during the last polls and the manifesto. They stated that for the state’s youth, there was no difference between the rules of the Congress and the Akali-BJP combine.

Addressing agitating employees union leaders, Vikas Kumar, Ashish Julaha, Rajinder Singh Sandha, Harpreet Singh, Sarabjit Singh, Gaurav Sharma said the government was not acknowledging their protests and the service done in the department for a long period.

Before coming to power, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh had promised to regularise all contractual employees in the first cabinet itself. Instead of giving jobs, the government formed five committees to make sure that contractual workers are engaged in a futile exercise. The committee members wasted the precious money of the exchequer by holding meetings and delivering nothing.

They stated that they learnt that the government was deliberating upon to bring in an act to declare that no contractual employees could be confirmed. In that scenario, they warned that they would be forced to tread the path of agitation.

On the behalf of the government, Cabinet Minister OP Soni came to the protest site and received the memorandum and said a cabinet sub-committee has been formed to make sure the contractual employees get their dues and he is one of its members. He assured that all employees recruited in a transparent manner will be regularised.

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