SSA, Mid-Day Meal Union meets minister Bhagat over salary cuts

Members of the Sarv Sikhiyan Abhiyan (SSA) and Mid-Day Meal Office Employees Union met AAP cabinet minister Mohinder Bhagat and senior AAP leader Pawan Kumar Tinu regarding their long-pending demands on job regularisation and salary cuts. They had also met AAP MLA Raman Arora recently with the same demands.

The AAP leaders were informed that the education secretary had deducted the salaries of last two months, due to which the employees were facing difficulties in paying their loan installments, children’s fee and bearing household expenses.

Senior leader Pawan Kumar Tinu called the Education Secretary to the spot and asked him to release the salaries.

Issuing a press statement, the leaders of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Mid-Day Meal Office Employees Union Shobhit Bhagat, Gagandeep Sharma, Rakesh Kumar and Rajiv Sharma said the cabinet minister and AAP leader Tinu listened to their demands carefully.

Regarding regularisation, the AAP leaders said the government would do it soon. They assured that the union’s demands would be met at the earliest by the government.