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Health department workers hold demo

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Seek upward revision of pay

— Photo: T. Singaravelou

DEMAND: Group C and D wing employees of the Health Department hold a demo at Bharathi park in support of the charter of their demands in Pondicherry on Friday.

Pondicherry: Employees of the Health Department coming under the Group C and D categories and working in the Government hospitals held a demonstration at Bharathi Park here on Friday seeking settlement of their demands.

Imbalance and disparity

The workers have also been on strike since Wednesday in support of their demands.

A spokesman of the Joint Agitation Committee of the employees pointed out that the imbalance and disparity in pay structure among these workers had been prevailing for nearly twenty years. Although the Chief Minister had assured the employees that the demands would be settled without delay, nothing had been done so far to concede their charter of demands.

The spokesman said that the workers in Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam regions were also observing sit-in strike.

The enhanced pay should be available retrospectively from January 1996, they said. The workers, who came in a procession, held the demonstration urging the Government to initiate immediate steps to sanction their demands, which would benefit a large section of workers.

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