Tirupati: Govt employees seek 55% fitment from July, 2018

Tirupati: The Joint Action Committee of government employees, teachers, contract workers and pensioner associations held dharnas at Mandal headquarters across the district on Friday. In Tirupati dharna was held at RDO office by the JAC in support of their pending demands. They have been demanding the implementation of 11th Pay Revision Commission (PRC) with 55 percent fitment from July 1, 2018 and the deadline for submitting the final report of PRC should not be extended.

The demands include that pending dearness allowance instalments from July 2018 should be sanctioned without further delay and the services of all contract workers have to be regularised immediately. The contributory pension scheme pertaining to 1.86 lakh employees be abolished soon and the old pension scheme has to be implemented in its place, Telugu medium should be continued in government schools simultaneously with English medium and the guidelines are to be simplified for providing health care for employees, teachers and pensioners through health cards.

The employees have been demanding increase of maternity leave to two years from the present two months on par with central government women employees and five day special casual leave be sanctioned to women employees. All eligible teachers should be promoted as junior lecturers and their service rules issues be resolved.

The agitating JAC leaders have said that they will take up the agitation further to district Collectorates where they will hold dharnas on December 10 followed by state level dharna at Vijayawada on December 20. APJAC district chairman S Suresh Babu, convenor K Muthyala Reddy, JAC Tirupati wing general secretary D Nirmala, state leaders G Nageswara Rao, Ramachandraiah, V Kiran and others participated.