Municipal board employees of BTC decry non-payment of salary

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TANGLA: The BTC zonal committee of All Assam Municipal Employees' Association has expressed strong dismay over the lackadaisical attitude of the Bodoland Territorial Council authorities towards reimbursement of salaries over years. The body has declared a series of the democratic agitational programme with five-point charter of demands.

Secretary of the organisation, Chandrika Sarmah expressing anguishment over the apathetic attitude of the BTC government towards its 210 employees engaged in nine municipal boards under the four districts of the Bodo belt asserted that the BTC government should have understood the agony of the employees of these nine municipal boards who were not paid their due salaries for 15 to 42 months.

He lamented over the fact that the other employees of the municipal boards outside the BTC were already paid their salaries from the source of the Devolution Fund created by the State government's 6th finance commission and even though the State government too had cleared the same fund for the employees of municipal boards under the jurisdiction of BTC, but the BTC government has been holding up the fund till date.

The secretary of the BTC zonal committee of the municipal employees association informed that in order to get their dues, it declared two phases of the democratic agitational programme which included the first phase with memorandum submission to the Chief Executive Member of BTC and the executive member of the town and country planning on January 20 last, submission of memorandum to the Chief Minister and State Minister for town and country planning, finance minister through the deputy commissioners of four districts under BTC on January 21, sit-in demonstration on January 24 at the Council Head Department, Kokrajhar.

In the second phase, the association would observe four day pen down strike from February 1 to February 4 next which exempted essential services like electricity services, water supply and cleanliness drive. Sarmah also informed that the association would take up further agitational programmes if the demands were not met by the BTC government within February 4 next.

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