Ministerial staff take out black flag rally

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, February 12

Members of the Punjab State Ministerial Service Union on Tuesday took out a protest rally on motorcycles in the city. They were carrying black flags. The protest was headed by union president Megh Singh Sidhu.

Before taking out the motorcycle rally, a gate rally was held in front of the District Administrative Complex, in which state president of the union Megh Singh Sidhu, PSMSU district president Kewal Bansal, Baldev Singh, Surinder Dhir, president, health department, and Gurpreet Singh, district general secretary, DC employees’ union, lashed out at the Capt Amarinder government.

They announced that if the government did not accept their demands, they would suspend their work from February 13 to 17 by locking the offices and the government would be responsible for it.

They said their demands were: the government should immediately release their pending six DA instalments, which have been lying pending for the last 23 months. Moreover, they had been demanding that the 6th Pay Commission recommendations should be implemented at the earliest.

Stenographers and typists should be given promotion without test and new recruits should be given full pay. Even the “irrational” transfer of the clerks should be cancelled.

Threaten to suspend work from today

• The union members say if the government does not accept their demands, they will suspend their work from February 13 to 17 by locking the offices and the government will be responsible for it

• Their demands include immediate release of pending six DA instalments, which have been lying pending for the last 23 months, the implementation of the 6th Pay Commission at the earliest, promotion without test for stenographers and typists, full pay for new recruits and cancellation of the “irrational” transfer of the clerks

• Earlier, the union members took out a protest rally on motorcycles carrying black flags. A gate rally was also held in front of the District Administrative Complex