Haryana employees reject new year sops
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Hisar: Haryana government’s new year sops to its employees in the form of implementation of pay panel recommendations, it appears, has failed to amuse several classes of employees.
The Haryana Civil Medical Services Association (HCMSA), the Haryana Information and Public Relations Officers Association (HIPROA) and Haryana Ministerial Staff Association (HMSA), are some of the unions of government employees who have rejected the new pay scales and some of them have threatened agitation. Members of HCMSA have started wearing black bands while on work from Thursday and have announced that they would meet in Rohtak on January 4 to decide their future course of action.
“The recommendations of the commission applicable to doctors working in government hospitals of the state are a farce and merely an eyewash,” said Randip Singh Punia, state vice-president of HCMSA.
“The state government has assured us that it would give us pay scales at par with those being given in Punjab but the government has failed to keep its word,” he said. Information and Public Relations department of the state government is known for disseminating information regarding government’s achievements of the government. Ironically, officers of this department have been agitating against the “step-motherly” treatment meted out to them in implementation of pay panel report.
The officers of the IPR department met Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and chief secretary Dharamvir in this connection on Wednesday and presented a memorandum to him.
“The recent pay revision has made the IPR officers feel that their services are not being recognized by the government as many classes of employees, who have now been placed in the same or higher pay scale, are less qualified than their officers. So much so, that the District Information and Public Relations Officers/Public Relations Officers have been placed below the matron and masters, who used to be one grade less than them till this revision,” alleged the information and public relations officer of the district, on the condition of anonymity. “Despite repeated assurances of the state finance minister, the state government has ignored to remove anomalies in pay scales of the ministerial staff and in case the government does not pay heed to their objections, we would have no alternative but to launch an agitation,” said HMSA secretary Virender Singh Rawat.