Set up pay panel, revive old pension, demands govt employees' federation

The All-India State Government Employees' Federation has threatened to launch a nationwide stir from the next month if the government doesn't change its stand on setting up the eighth pay commission, restoration of old pension scheme and continuation with the policy of contractual employment and privatisation.

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Federation president Subhash Lamba said the matter would be discussed at a meeting in Kanpur on December 28 and 29. He said the Central Government's decision to refuse setting up the eighth pay commission for the government employees and denial to restore the old pension scheme had come as a major setback to lakhs of government employees and might result in protests and demonstrations in the near future.

He said while the seventh pay commission was announced in February 2014, the government had failed to announce the commission even as a period of 10 years had passed, causing a severe resentment among the employees.

"Though employees have been seeking the repeal of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) Act and restoration of the old pension, the government has rubbed salt to the wounds by announcing a new pension scheme, which had not been demanded by them," he said, adding that the non-regularisation of the contractual employees had also been an issue of concern as around one crore posts had been lying vacant in the government departments.

The federation also condemned the reported handing over of the Power Department of Chandigarh and Power Discoms of Purvanchal and Dakshinanchal in UP to private hands recently.