The Kalaburagi district unit of the Akhila Karnataka Rajya Naukarara Sangha on Thursday staged a hunger strike outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office demanding that the State government remove the disparity in the payscales of employees of the Union and State governments.
District president of the association Sharanabasavana Gowda Patil said that the State government employees were deprived of benefits vis-a-vis the payscales of the Union government employees.
There was a huge difference of 65 % in the pay benefits extended to Group A and Group D employees of the State government when compared with the Seventh Pay Commission payscales of the Union government employees.
Mr. Patil accused the State government of being lethargic in revising salaries of its employees and urged it to set up a pay commission headed by a retired High Court judge and get a report within six months.
The government should also extend an interim relief of 30 % of salary effective from January 2017, as 14 States have already responded to the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations, he added.
