Strike for salary hike

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, February 15

Members of Punjab State Ministerial Service Union continued their pen-down strike on the third consecutive day on Friday. They gathered at the district administrative complex and raised slogans against the state government for not fulfilling their pending demands. The members of the union suspended their work and sat on a dharna at the complex.

Megh Singh Sidhu, district president, PSMSU, said, “The government should immediately release our six pending installments of dearness allowance (DA) which have been pending for the last 23 months. Recommendations of the sixth pay commission must be implemented on priority. Stenographers and typists should be given promotion without test and new recruits should be given full pay and transfers of clerks on irrational basis must be cancelled.” The union members said they would continue their pen-down strike till February 17 and the government would be responsible for the same.