Jaipur Dec 7 (IANS) Rajasthan government employees will go on mass leave on Friday to press their demands which include implementing the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission with retrospective effect from January 1 2016.
"Around 70 per cent of the total employees have already submitted their leave applications to the respective authorities " said Gajendra Rathore convener of the Akhil Rajasthan Rajya Karamchari Sanyukt Sangarsh Samiti.
"By evening this percentage is sure to increase " he added.
The state government had on December 2 2017 announced that it would provide benefits to its nearly 12.5 lakh employees and pensioners with effect from January 1 this year under the seventh pay panel recommendations.
Protesting against this announcement a large number of state government employees had gathered at Ram Niwas Garden here on December 3 to take out a protest rally to the Civil Lines area.
According to Rathore the state employees will stage a phase-wise protest. On December 8 they will go on mass leave while on December 11 they will launch a 48-hour fast. On Dec 12 they will observe a pen-down protest and on December 13 a massive protest will be staged at the district headquarters.
"The failure of the state s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in meeting its promises will be highlighted " he said.
The employees will also highlight a list of promises that the BJP made before the polls which included the promise to bring the pay-scales of state government employees at par with those of the central government.
"The protest will remind the BJP of its failed promises at a time when it will celebrate four years of the formation of their government in the state " said Rathore.
--IANS
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