LUDHIANA: A protest took place outside A zone office of MC near Mata Rani Chowk on Wednesday by the members of sewer men safai karamchari sangharsh committee.
They staged a protest with a demand to regularise the class IV employees which was announced and even approved during assembly elections. The union members announced in case their demands are not redressed, they will start regular protests from next week. They also threatened to burn the effigies of elected representatives from next week.
However the protest was started in the morning at 10am and it ended at around 2.30pm. The main gate of the zone A office was blocked by protesting employees while small gate was opened for the movement of public as well as MC employees who were inside the office. The protest has become a routine affair at zone A office which is creating problems for the visitors as they are not allowed to enter /exit from main entrance.
The members claimed that they have been sitting on protest regularly for almost one month but the authorities are not taking their demands seriously. They claimed that these employees were announced regular jobs by the then congress leaders and former CM Charanjit Singh Channi had even approved the proposal to regularize at least 3000 class IV employees.
Some were even issued the work orders too but due to election code of conduct the process was stopped in between. They rued when the government got changed everything came to stand still and now nobody is talking about it.
One of the members of union Yashpal Chaudhary said, "Neither AAP government nor Congress mayor Balkar Sandhu is listening to the demands of the employees therefore now we will start burning the effigies of all concerned." He said they will sit on regular and daily protest from next week if their demands are not fulfilled.
Meanwhile the other demands of union members included a school for employees of civic body for quality education, implementation of old pension scheme, recruitment of sanitary inspectors, probation period for employees should be reduced from 3 years to one years etc.
