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Ministerial staff strike dislocates work

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The "sit in strike" throws developmental schemes out of gear

PONDICHERRY: There is hardly any department in Pondicherry, which has not borne the impact of the current "indefinite sit in strike" observed by the ministerial staff since Monday last to urge the administration to concede their demands for increased emoluments and also restructuring of the posts of lower and upper division clerks and also assistants.

The staff claim they are the pivot of the administrative machinery.

Their current sit in strike has affected different sections of people and departments including settling of bills, sale of stamp papers and also, registration of vehicles.. Pondicherry had hardly seen such an agitation and its impact in the past.

With only two months left for the current financial year (2005-2006) to come to a close a genuine apprehension has arisen now whether the administration would be able to reach its goal of utilising the plan funds fully.

The question has become a subject of debate with the ministerial staff being up in arms against the Government.

The Government contends that the staff were raising demands that could not be settled by the territorial Government on its own and without the approval of the Centre.

But the staff say that when demands of other categories of the employees could find positive nod there was no reason why their demands should be pushed to the backseat.

An elected legislator told The Hindu on Tuesday that the strike had caused handicaps in implementing various welfare measures including disbursement of the monthly financial assistance to the poor and the handicapped.

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