Chandigarh, Jun 23 (UNI) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Wednesday asked the Congress government to convene a special session of the assembly immediately to explain the fraud meted out to State government employees in the name of the sixth Pay Commission even as it demanded that all cases of injustice pointed out by employee associations be corrected within one month.
Disclosing this in a statement here, SAD senior leader Bikram Singh Majithia said chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh should explain why allowances of various categories of employees had been stopped altogether and why different categories of employees had been created in the Punjab government by enforcing the Central Pay Commission on new recruits. “The chief minister should also tell why thousands of contractual employees, whom he had committed to regularize five years back, were still not regularized till now”.
Mr Bikram Majithia also demanded the immediate dismissal of finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal. “Employees across the State have expressed their no confidence in the finance minister by holding a pen down strike followed by a walk out from government offices. The agitation is expected to intensify in the coming days with the employee federations announcing a week long agitation plan. Government functioning has been partially paralyzed already. The employees do not have any faith that Mr Manpreet Badal will redress their grievances due to his anti-employee approach. Therefore the chief minister should sack the finance minister immediately so that rapprochement talks with the employees can be initiated as quickly as possible”.
The SAD leader also demanded a probe into the entire recommendations made by the 6th Pay Commission. “It seems that not only employees but even the government has been deceived as the Pay Commission report which is being sold as a bonanza for employees while it in fact discriminates against them”. Mr Majithia also demanded that Non Practicing Allowance (NPA) of doctors, which had been slashed, should be restored in full. He also demanded that other allowances which had been slashed severely, including House Rent Allowance (HRA) and Rural Area Allowance should be brought back. He also condemned abolition of the Conveyance Allowance and called for its immediate restoration.
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