The contract employees in the electricity department under the banner of the Telangana Electricity Trade Union Front (TETUF), launched five-day relay hunger strike here on Monday, in front of the Collectorate demanding the early resolution of their charter of demands.
The demands included the regularization of services of all the 23,000 contract employees, removal of contract system, implementation of pension scheme, payment of salaries through the treasuries and undertaking of the new recruitment in the department. Addressing the gathering, Front chairman Lakshman Reddy said that the contract staff were working for the past 20 years hoping for regularisation. The Front convener Gangadhar said that their agitation will continue
