CM urged to address employees' grievances
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, January 24 2023: The JAC of AMTUC & AMGEO, Manipur has drawn the attention of chief minister N Biren towards issues besieging state government's employees and pensioners including demand for providing DA/DR at par with central gov ernment employees, extension of retirement age up to 62 years, restoration of Old Pension Scheme (OPS), inter transfer of secretariat service employees with their corresponding departments, etc.

In a memorandum submitted Tuesday, JAC secretary general Thiyam Momocha urged the CM for early solution to the grievances of the state government employees.

The issues are payment of DA/ DR at par with central government employees with effect from January 2023 onwards with necessary sum to be incurred to be reflected in Revised Estimate 2022-23 and Budget Estimate 2023 24 in the upcoming Budget Session; arrangement for early payment of the outstanding dues to the pensioners/family pensioners; extension of service period of state government employees by another two years to 62 years to lessen the existing financial burden on payment of retirement benefits; scrapping of New Pension System (NPS) and resumption of OPS; immediate payment of Final GPF accumulations to retired employees; and allowing withdrawal of Advance & Part Final GPF of employees.

Payment of all retirement benefits including leave salary to confirmed work charged employees of all engineering departments as provided in the order dated October 7,1997 issued by the Department of Personnel & Training (DOPT) along with the order issued by it on December 28,2012; service confirmation of work charged employees who have attained the eligibility criteria under CPWD Manual; amendment of notification dated January 7,2022 of Secretariat Finance Department (PIC) to create room for inclusion of work charged confirmed drivers in the revised level of pay matrix; filling up of all sanctioned post at an early date; no to preferential service extension of officials working in secretariat services and other departments beyond their date of retirement, it added.

The memo continued that a meeting of Minimum Wages Board for revision of rate of casual and muster roll employees should be arranged at an early date; a policy for inter transfer of secretariat service employees with their corresponding departments should be initiated and extension of medical reimbursement benefits to retired employees as is done in respect of MLAs/ex-MLAs and their families.

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