The Bihar government, toughening its stand against the striking state government employees, announced to terminate services of about 3.5 lakh employees.
“We have decided in principle to initiate the process of terminating the services of striking employee,” Amir Subhani, Secretary, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, said.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, refusing strikers’ demands had said, “Do we first work towards attending to the people’s suffering or pay attention to enhancing the facilities of government employees?”
Nearly, 3.5 lakh government employees are on an indefinite strike since January seven demanding the implementation of the sixth pay commission’s recommendations including allowances.
Court intervention
Earlier, in the day, the state government submited before the Patna High Court that it will not hold negotiations with the associations of the striking employees until the stir is withdrawn.
“There will not be any negotiation with representatives of the employees until the strike is called off,” Advocate General P K Shahi told a division bench of the court comprising acting chief Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad and Justice Shyam Kishore Sharma which is hearing a PIL seeking termination of services of the agitating employees.
The court had on January 30 issued notices to the Bihar government and the three associations of employees, who are on an indefinite strike since January seven to demand in toto implementation of the 6th Pay Commission recommendations on the PIL filed by NGO ‘Jan Chowkidar’ that had termed the strike not only “illegal, but criminal activity”.
Source : Local Sources from Bihar
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