Staff protest pay disparity

Tarn Taran, November 30

The Joint Action Committee, Accounts Cadre, Punjab, organised its border zone level demonstration at the main gate of the Powercom circle office here on Tuesday.

The officials and the employees of the accounts cadre from Tarn Taran, Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Pathankot took part in the dharna. They presented a demand letter to the local MLA Dr Dharambeer Agnihotri who expressed his sympathy with the demands of the agitating employees.

Simranjit Singh, Sandeep Singh, Manpreet Singh, Puja Sharma, Gursangat Kaur and other leaders while addressing on the occasion condemned the indifferent attitude of the state government for not giving them reasonable pay scales.

The leaders said the revenue assistant (RA) and accountants were not given the status of induction post.

Other demands were releasing of blocked promotions, accounts officers be given Rs5,500 as compensatory allowance on a par with the SDO’s, etc. The leaders warned that the organisation would intensify its agitation in case the demands are not met. — OC