New Delhi, November 20:
The National
Joint Council of Action (NJCA), which represents 30 lakh Central
government employees, wants wage revision to be done every five years
and the latest one — announced on Thursday — to be done retrospectively,
with effect from December 1, 2014.
The grant of interim relief and merger of 100 per cent of dearness allowance are some of their other demands.
The
need to include Grameen Dak Sewaks within the ambit of the Seventh
Central Pay Commission and settling all anomalies of the Sixth Pay
Commission also formed a part of charter of demands, which were marked
to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, with copies marked to Jitendra Singh,
Minister of State, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pension,
and Pradeep Kumar Sinha, Cabinet Secretary.
Against PPP, FDI
Another
demand was against privatisation, public private partnership or foreign
direct investment in Railways and Defence establishments, apart from a
move against corporatising postal services, said the letter written by
NJCA convenor Shivagopal Mishra, who is also the General Secretary of
the All India Railwaymen Federation.
The NJCA also
demanded the removal of a ban on recruitments and creation of new posts.
It also wants of the PFRDA Act, which brought the defined contribution
pension scheme, scrapped.
The NJCA has also moved
against outsourcing, contractorisation and privatisation of governmental
functions, apart from opposing the Centre’s proposed move to close down
printing presses, publication and form stores, stationery departments
and medical depots.
At the same time, it has called
for regularising existing daily rated/casual and contract workers and
absorption of trained apprentices.
Source : http://www.thehindubusinessline.com
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