The Hindu 15.03.2010
State municipal employees’ meet held
Staff Reporter
TIRUPATI: The municipal employees have reiterated their demand for payment of salaries and extension of benefits on a par with the employees of the State government.
The State executive meeting of Andhra Pradesh Municipal Ministerial Employees Association and Subordinate Services Association was conducted here on Sunday with the General Secretary and MCT Revenue Officer K.L. Varma in the chair. The office-bearers rued that though a year had passed after the state agreed to place them on an equal footing alongside the state employees vide G.O.Ms.No.179 dated February 25, 2009, thus allowing payment of wages and salaries through the treasury, the issue of converting the Provident Fund into GPF had remained unsettled.
It was also decided to exert pressure on the Government to extend retirement benefits to civic pensioners, who had retired after 1.4.2009, through treasury and also do away with the Local Fund Audit’s pre-audit system for payment of wages in the districts. “We want the minimum wageas for contract employees be fixed at Rs.5,000,” Mr.Varma demanded and also condemned the physical/verbal attacks by chairpersons, councillors and commissioners on the ministerial staff.
Some 200 employee leaders from across the State including the association’s President Krishna Mohan, convener Venkat Ramaiah, district convener Narayana Reddy and regional secretary Gopalakrishna Varma took part.
