Shaurya Sharma
Fatehgarh Sahib.February.18, 2019: All the Government offices in the district wear deserted look as all the employees of different Govt. offices belonging to Punjab State Ministerial Services Union are on pen down strike from 13th February onwards. Though the Govt. did not made any efforts to redress their grievances to end the strike but the people are the worst sufferers as they had been making rounds of the offices daily but of no use.
While talking to media persons here today the people lashed out at the Govt. as well as the employees. R.N.Sharma President Citizen’s Welfare Council said that strike is causing inconvenience to public not to Govt. so the employees should feel the concern of the people as their genuine work are suffering and the students whose career is at stake are not getting their any work done. He called upon the Govt. to intervene immediately to resolve the matter, so that public may not suffer moreover it brings bad name to Govt.
Interestingly when new DC took the round of his branches all the employees occupied their seats after leaving the dharna.
Meanwhile Satnam Bhardwaj District President Punjab State Ministerial Services Union alleged that Govt. is not sincere towards the genuine demands of employees and just for eye wash formed a sub cabinet committee, which has called the union leaders for talks on 21st February. He said till then strike will continue. He warned that if the Govt. did not conceded their genuine demands before the implementation of model code of conduct, the employees will boycott the election related work and teach the ruling party lesson in coming Parliament elections. Recounting the main demands, he said that they want immediate release of their DA installments, implementation of 6th pay commission report, restore old pension scheme for employees recruited after 1.1.2004, withdrawal of notification issued on 15.1.15 and to remove pay anomalies. He said till demands are not met strike will continue.