Municipal employees demand release of pending salaries, staged sit-in at Dibrugarh

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DIBRUGARH: The Dibrugarh district unit of All Assam Civic Bodies Workers' Federation staged a sit-in in front of the Dibrugarh Municipal Board office over non-payment of salaries for many months.

"We demand regularization of our service. Municipal workers are of three types- regular, contractual and master roll. It is unfortunate that the government has not yet provincialized the services of the municipal workers," said Sindhuram Kalita, district president of the All Assam Civic Bodies Workers' Federation.

He said, "We want our salaries on time because we have to run our families. The municipal employees have not been paid their salaries for 6-33 months and these employees are facing financial hardships."

The Federation stated, "On May 31, 2021, the Legislative Department, Government of Assam, published the Gazette notification on provincialization of 1,653 Municipal employees who were appointed on or before September 4, 2013 out of the total strength of 5,886 posts but till date nothing has been done."

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