Salary cut: Staff seek CS support

Salary cut: Staff seek CS support

Jaipur:  08.09.2020

As state government employees started their fivephase stir against salary cut on Monday, the representatives of All Rajasthan State Government Employees Federation met chief secretary Rajeeva Swarup and submitted a memorandum urging the government to withdraw its decision to deduct one-day salary and release their pending salaries for the month of March.

According to state general secretary of the federation Tej Singh Rathore, the chief secretary assured them of bringing their demands to the notice of chief minister Ashok Gehlot.

The cabinet had decided to deduct two days’ remuneration of officers belonging to all-India and state services and one-day salary of other state government employees (ministerial and sub-ordinates) from September to mobilise resources for Covid relief fund.

In a memorandum to the chief secretary, they demanded their pending salaries for March (16 days) be released and withdraw the order to deduct one-day salary.

They also demanded that the government must reverse its order to stop payment of cash for 15 days (out of 30 days privilege leave) when they go on leave.

Further, they demanded that the government should have a dialogue on their 15-point demand charter which was submitted earlier.

The charter includes issues pertaining to salary cuts, new pension scheme, contractual employees etc. On September 9, statewide protest will be held in villages, tehsils, sub-divisions, districts by burning the pay cut order. A campaign on Twitter against the government’s order will be run on September 14 and 15. On Sept 21-22, the employees will leave all the department WhatsApp groups for two days. They will neither take orders, nor give any information to higher officials (non-cooperation with the government). TNN