Municipality staff stage protest
The Hindu
Puducherry State Municipality and Commune Panchayat Employees demand salary, pension arrears, 7th Pay Commission, and pension scheme implementation.
The Joint Action Committee of the Puducherry State Municipality and Commune Panchayat Employees staged a protest on Tuesday to reiterate various demands, including the disbursal of salary and pension arrears.
The other demands include the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission recommendations with retrospective effect from January 1, 2016, the allocation of adequate government funds for payment of gratuity/commutation benefit to pensioners, and the implementation of new pension scheme to employees whose service had been regularised after 2004.
The committee had staged a demonstration in front of the Assembly on August 1, and will stage a dharna at the Raj Nivas on August 9.