Seemandhra Employees in the Secretariat, who have been
organising protest programmes for the last 33 days, will go on an
indefinite strike from Tuesday Sep 3,2013 to protest against the Congress party’s
decision to divide the State
After the members of APNGOs and other service associations, RTC staff and teachers went on indefinite strike from August 12 and the Secretariat Seemandhra Employees’ Forum served a strike notice to the Chief Secretary on August 22. In their notice, the Forum representatives said that the employees’ service conditions, pension of retired staff, financial status and future of their families would be severely affected if the Centre divided the State and deprived the Seemandhra region of Hyderabad.
Of 2,500 regular employees in the Secretariat, about
1,600 to 1,700 employees were from Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema. “They
are going to the Secretariat everyday at 11 a.m., staging dharna for
one hour and are going back,” said U. Muralikrishna, chairman of the
Forum.
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