PWD workers hold protest, to gherao Assembly on Aug 20

Tribune News Service

Karnal, august 5

In a state-level protest rally, scores of employees under the banner of PWD Mechanical Workers Union on Sunday announced to gherao the Haryana Assembly during the monsoon session on August 20 in support of their demands.

The protesters were demanding regularisation of the services of pump operators, equal pay for equal work, removal of “discrepancies” in the service rules, abolition of mandatory computer knowledge for promotion in the Irrigation Department.

Besides, they were also demanding filling of the vacant posts, removal of encroachments from the department land and quarters for its staff members.

A large number of employees on Sunday assembled in Sector 12 and hold a protest. Virender Singh, state president of the union, led the protest rally and accused the state government of not fulfilling its promises. He said in November last year, they were assured by the Principal Secretary to the CM that their demands would be fulfilled, but nothing had been done.

Virender said the union had served an ultimatum to the government. He said if their demands were not met at the earliest they would gherao the Haryana Assembly on August 20. They would also stage an indefinite dharna at the CM’s camp office in Karnal.