Jaipur: Ministerial employees to hold ‘maha rally’ on September 9

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan ministerial employees sangharsh samiti on Monday decided to hold a ‘maha rally’ in Jaipur on September 9 if their seven-point demands, including increasing their grade pay to 3,600 (Rs 26,000 to 28,000 salary per month), are not met by then.
The representatives of the samiti met chief secretary Niranjan Arya on Monday who assured them of fulfilling their demands soon.
Hence, the samiti’s plan of boycotting work from August 3 has been suspended for now.
“We organised a ‘sadbuddhi yajna’ today (on Monday) wishing that good sense will prevail and the government will accept our demands. We met the chief secretary on Monday and he asked the DOP principal secretary to hold a meeting with us and resolve our issues,” said Gajendra Singh Rathore, member of the samiti.
They also have a demand to reinstate 11,000 posts of ministerial employees which were withdrawn by the previous BJP government.
“Out of 26,000 posts, which were sanctioned for ministerial employees in 2013 by the Gehlot government, 11,000 posts were withdrawn by the previous BJP government,” he said.
The other demands are withdrawing of the order dated September 30, 2017, to deduct their salaries; and to alter the fixation of pay/promotion period for the employees from 9, 18, 27 years to 8, 16, 24, 32 years.
Rajasthan ministerial employees sangharsh samiti had announced a month-long programme to protest against the government’s delay in increasing their grade pay to 3,600 and fulfilling other demands.