Thousands of employees working with Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company, Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike have extended their support to the one-day strike by the Karnataka State Government Employees Association.
Are you planning to visit a state government office in Karnataka on June 2? If so, postpone it to avoid wasting your time. Around 6.40 lakh Karnataka state government employees plan to remain at home in support of their long-pending demands.
Speaking with dna, BP Manje Gowda, president, Karnataka State Government Employees' Association said that employees were demanding salary on par with Central Government employees after the seventh Pay Commission recommendations are implemented. "We have placed our demands with the state government authorities in 2014. The chief minister has promised to make a budgetary allocation of Rs 5,000 crore for this purpose but he failed to do so. We again placed our demands in 2015, the chief minister had promised to allocate funds in the budget for the year 2016-17 but he failed again. We have no other option than remain absent from duty for a day,'' Manje Gowda said.
According to Gowda, there is a huge difference in salary between the Central Government employees and the state government employees. “Our protest will be peaceful on Thursday. There will be no rallies or protest meetings. We have advised all the employees to remain at home. No one will attend duty on tomorrow,’’ he said.
He said that thousands of employees working with Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company, Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike have extended their support to the one-day strike by the Karnataka State Government Employees Association. “I have come across news in the media stating that chief minister would convene a meeting to discuss the issue on Wednesday but till now I have not received any intimation from the chief minister’s office in this regard. There will be no change in our plan to abstain duty on Thursday,’’ he said.
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