Maha Govt staff to go on 3-day strike for 7th pay panel wages from today

The work at the Government offices across Maharashtra will grind to a halt for three days from Tuesday as nearly 15 lakh State Government employees owing allegiance to two employee organisations will go on strike to press for the immediate implementation of the 7th Pay Commission report and other demands.

The three-day strike has been called by the Maharashtra State Employees Organisation  and the Maharashtra State Class Four Employees Association.

Though the Maharashtra State Gazetted Officers’ Federation had also announced that it would also join the strike beginning Tuesday, the Federation withdrew its plan to join the strike.

Sources said that the gazetted officers had agreed to accept interim salary hike for 14 months and the Government's decision to implement code of conduct for officers.

The employees working at Mantralaya (the state secretariat) in south Mumbai, Zilla Parishads, municipal bodies, teachers and non-teaching staff working in Government educational institutions in various parts of the state will join the strike.

“We are firm on going ahead with the three-day strike from tomorrow,” a senior office bearer of the co-ordination committee of various employee organisations said here in the evening, after the committee met and formalised its plans to go on the three-day strike.   

“We will sit on a dharna in front of the glass gate at Mantralaya. During the course of the strike, we intend to put locks on the all the gates of Mantralaya," Brihanmumbai State Employees Organisation’s office bearers Milind Deshmukh and Nandu Katkar said.