Summary:
Employees boycotted work after a strike call by Uttarakhand Collectorate Ministerial Employees Union (UCMEU).Rajender Kumar, head of UCMEU, said, “Our demand for 10% reservation on nayab tehsildar’s post has been pending for many years. DEHRADUN: Work at tehsil offices came to a halt on Tuesday as employees launched a two-day strike against delay in implementation of a government order which reserved 10% of the vacancy of nayab tehsildar post for ministerial employees. “I was waiting for this day for a year but the office was empty when I reached there.” Two years ago, the cabinet had approved the decision and a government order had been issued but the matter was put on the back burner due to objection by the employees’ union of the revenue department.”After the state government accepted the demands of collectorate ministerial employees, workers of the revenue department had launched a protest against the decision. The UCMEU had launched another agitation which had forced the state government to impose no work-no pay and Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against the employees.“A cabinet sub-committee appointed by the state government which included the then cabinet ministers Indira Hridesh, Yashpal Arya and Harak Singh Rawat had failed to arrive at a solution..