The Hindu : ITC management panels to strike work

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Monday, Mar 22, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka - Mangalore

ITC management panels to strike work

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE, MARCH 21. Members of the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Districts Private Industrial Training Centres Management Committee Association will strike work on Monday.

The association has also decided to launch an indefinite strike in front of the offices of Deputy Commissioners in Mangalore and Udupi from Wednesday, if the State Government does not respond to its demands by then. Vijaykumar Prabhu, president of the Association and rector of St. Aloysius Institutions, told presspersons here on Saturday that the Government had gone back on its assurances to the association and the Karnataka State Private ITC Employees' Association. The Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, had directed the Finance Department to release the salary grant by January 31.

The employees had not received their salary for the past 11 months, and the Finance Department, in an order on March 3, created confusion.

K. Balakrishna Bhat, MLC, said the former Chief Minister, J.H. Patel, and then Finance Minister, Siddaramaiah, signed an agreement in 1997 with the respective associations to provide 75 per cent of the salary grant.

The Congress Government reduced the grant to 70 per cent.

Mr. Bhat said that if the Government failed to respond to the demands, the Opposition parties would make them an electoral issue.

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