Over eight lakh government employees seem to be in no mood to compromise with the state government over the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.
They have decided to take out a rally from Sardar Baug at Lal Darwaza to Navrangpura on December 6 to mount pressure on the government for its implementation.
Vishnu Patel, the president of the Gujarat State Employees Coordination Committee (GSECC), told The Indian Express on Thursday that the employees will not accept anything but implementation of the recommendations in toto.
He said the government had implemented the recommendations only partially, which was not acceptable to the employees.
Patel said the government had promised to implement the pay panel report just before the last Lok Sabha elections, but it had been delaying it on one pretext or the other.
Asked what would be the next step if the government did not accept their demand, he said a meeting of leaders of various employee associations will be held on December 5 in Ahmedabad to decide on the course of action after the December 6 rally.
He said it could be a mass casual leave and even state-wide strikes - depending on the response of the government.
Patel said he had a meeting on the issue with senior government authorities on Wednesday, but in vain.
The teaching staff of Gujarat University (GU) and all the other universities in the state were protesting against the decision of the state government to grant a revision in their pay scales according to the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission. The teachers were demanding that they be given the scale of UGC.
It was in October that the state government had come out with the GR of the revision in the salary
"We have given the government a lot of chances. The executive committee now wants the government to take the final decision soon. We have not taken up a protest again because we were assured that it will be done soon. The government has said that they would be signing it in the coming week, but if that does not happen, we might have to look at starting the protest again," said KS Shastri, the president of the association.
according to the Sixth Pay Commission after which the teachers had gone on a strike. The protest of the teachers lasted for over 20 days after which the representatives of the state government met the executive committee of the association. In the meeting, teachers were assured that a revised GR would be issued on a condition that the strike is withdrawn.
BUTA representatives attended a meeting called by Federation of College and University Teachers’ Association on Thursday to discuss the revised GR. To discuss further plan of action on these demands, the association will call a meeting of the governing body on Friday.
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