Suwidha Centre employees raise demands

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 26

The Punjab State Suwidha Employees Union today gave a memorandum of their demands to Union Minister of State Vijay Sampla seeking his intervention for regularisation of their jobs.

The employees of Suwidha Centres across the state, who have been agitating from the last four years to get our services regularised and their wages enhanced, said that they were given a nominal revision in their salaries in 2011 after which there had been no further revision.

The members told the minister that nearly 1000 employees were working in all Suwidha Centres which includes one district Suwidha administrator, Sub-Divisional Suwidha Administrator, accountant, data entry operators and Class IV employees. They said that most of the employees had been working in Suwidha centres from the last eight years or more to manage approximately 70 services under one roof. They said that when all employees had been playing a role in implementing the Punjab Right to Service Act 2011, they must be acknowledged for their work with enhancement of salaries and regularisation of jobs.

As of now, Suwidha staff is working as a nodal staff of the society as well as of Deputy Commissioner Offices. District administration uses their services in an extensive manner in each Lok Sabha Elections, Assembly Elections Municipal, and Panchayat Elections.

President of the union Rajiv Gupta said, “We have also been roped in for flagship programs like atta-daal scheme and regularisation of unauthorised colonies. As the government has started reviewing the progress of the districts through online systems like online RTS pendency reports on monthly basis and sangat darshan complaints are also redressed through online systems so that public can get their grievance response quickly.”