Employees of the government-owned Puducherry Road Transport Corporation (PRTC) on Monday staged a token hunger strike in front of the Legislative Assembly demanding disbursal of salary to all employees on the same day and implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations.
A spokesperson of the PRTC Employees’ Union said they had submitted a 21-point charter of demands to the management that included demand for immediate implementation of the Seventh Pay panel recommendations, regularisation of women conductors who had put in more than eight years of service, and implementation of modified career progression scheme for eligible employees in the corporation.
Although repeated representations were made to the authorities concerned, it had failed to evoke any response. If this continued, the employees planned to intensify their protest, he said.
