PWD staff plan stir

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, MAY 14. Mr.S. Muralidharan, general secretary, association of metre readers in the Public Works Department, said here today that the meter readers had been stagnating in the posts without any promotion since 1972.

They had resorted to agitations since 1995. But the authorities concerned did not listen to their demand.

Even the Centrally sponsored Assured Career Progression scheme's benefits are out of bounds for the meter readers. This scheme could have been enforced for the meter readers. But the administration remained inactive.

The wage revision for the meter readers was done from 1991 instead of doing so from 1987.

So the alibi of the administration that the ACP would not be applicable to them was unjust. The lack of justice has forced them to resort to a series of agitations from May 24.

He said that the staff would go on casual leave for three days from May 24 and hold demonstration in front of the PWD Main office for four hours from 9.00 a. m. every day.

The staff would resort to sit-in-strike from May 29.

Anganwadi staff to stage demonstration today

Ms. S. Thilagam, secretary, Pondicherry State Angwadi Workers Association, said here today that all employees and workers of the anganwadi centres here would close the centres and converge at the office of the Director of Child and Women's Development in Sithankudil here tomorrow to condemn the `removal of one Ms Vijayalakshmi from service without any reason.'

She said that there had been instances of insults being heaped on the staff and workers by a section of higher-ups in the name of supervision of working of anganwadi centres.

To secure justice and also to ensure scrapping of order of removal of the staff a demonstration would be staged tomorrow at the office of the Director, the secretary said in a press note today.

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