Andhra employees strike: Nearly 10 lakh people on 3 day strike in AP

It seems that Andhra government has been trapped in grave problem as nearly 10 lakh government employees of the state including teachers of different levels of education have declared a three day pen down, tool down and chalk down strike from Wednesday.

As per report of the sources, the government employees have brought the work in the state at grinding halt due to their unhappiness over laziness of the government in the implementations of the recommendations of the 9th pay revision commission.

Sources have also reported that the commission had given 12 recommendations which were accepted by the government in 2009. Of that only one demand, fitment of scales was implemented by the state government.

Moreover, failure of government in fulfilling other demands like issuing of health cards to all employees; hike in the house rent allowance etc. also triggered the employees strike.

The proposal of issuing health card to the employees was turned down by the government saying that it would soon constitute Arogya Trust and they would get health insurance cards. However, the employees are against insurance companies managing the health cards.

On the hike of HRA, cabinet subcommittee suggested that it could accept a hike of 2% and not on the basis of category of the city they live in. It also indicated that it might accept the demand of automatic promotions after 6, 12, 18 years. However, there are serious differences on regularizing contract employees.

As per report of the sources, Employee Union leaders K Swami Goud and V Gopal Reddy claimed that if the government does not early action in their favour within a deadline of 3 days, they would go on an indefinite strike.

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