Gram panchayat workers seek wage revision

Urging the State government to implement various demands, including revision of their wages, the gram panchayat workers across the district staged a protest outside the Labour Commissioner’s office here on Monday.

Protesting under the banner of the Karnataka State Gram Panchayat Employees’ Association and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, the protesters took out a rally here. Expressing displeasure over the alleged delay in revising the wages as announced in the State Gazetteer a few years ago, the protestors raised slogans against the government. They demanded that Rs. 15,000 a month be fixed as minimum wages for bill collectors, clerks and computer operators; Rs. 12,000 for water pump operators and ‘D’ group employees and Rs. 1,000 for sweepers. They said that social security benefits should be extended to gram panchayat employees.

The government should regularise the services of all those working in gram panchayat offices, they said. G.R. Ramu, Shivakumar, Nagaraja, Nanjaiah and others were present.

They stage a protest outside Labour Commissioner’s office

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