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80,000 PR employees to go on strike from August 5

‘Mahapradarshana’ organised at Indira Park in capital

- Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

Grievance at grassroots: Panchayat Raj employees staging a protest demonstration at Indira Park in Hyderabad on Monday.

HYDERABAD: About 80,000 employees of the Panchayat Raj Department will go on an indefinite strike from the night of August 5 as part of their phased agitation to press their demands. The demands include payment of salaries through the State consolidated fund (010 head account).

This was announced here on Monday by leaders of the A. P. Panchayati Raj Services Association at a ‘mahapradarshana’ organised at Indira Park.

The agitation received a boost with CPI(M) floor leader Nomula Narsimhaiah; T. Harish Rao, Telangana Rashtra Samiti legislator; MLCs Nageshwar, B. Mohan Reddy and P.Subba Reddy and leaders of the Joint Action Committee of Employees, Teachers and Workers V. Gopal Reddy (chairman) and Subbarayan (co-chairman) expressing their solidarity for it. They visited the ‘mahapradarshana’ site and addressed the agitators.

Addressing the employees, Association leaders Shaik Jamiulla, P. Biksham and N. Darshan urged them to be prepared for the strike to protest the government’s ‘indifference’ towards their demands.

They said the strike would paralyse the department’s work.

The Panchayat Raj employees are also demanding filling of 160 vacant posts of mandal parishad development officers and 130 posts of rural development extension officers and the regularisation of contract panchayat secretaries who work on a monthly pay of Rs. 4,900.

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