Municipal employees stage protest in Dibrugarh

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DIBRUGARH: The 3-day strike by the employees of the Dibrugarh Municipal Board (DMB) entered its second day on Tuesday. Demanding solutions to their long-standing problems, around 6,800 employees of 103 municipal bodies in the State under the banner of All Assam Civic Bodies Workers' Federation had launched a three-day strike from Monday.

Among their major demands were regularisation of jobs for all municipal employees serving in the state's 103 urban local bodies (ULBs), which include municipal boards and town committees, clearance of municipal employees' salaries, which had been pending from 3 months to 37 months, and a moratorium on all new municipal appointments until the existing employees were regularized."Previously, on May 31, 2021, the State government published a gazette notification regarding the provincialization of 1,653 municipal employees who were appointed on or before September 4, 2013 out of a total strength of 1,653 municipal employees.

"We have not been paid our salaries for the last 37 months. We are struggling to arrange two square meals a day for our families. There is no money even for medical treatment. Despite rendering selfless services we continue to remain neglected by the government," an employee of Dibrugarh Municipal Board said.

"We are facing problems to run our family because we are not getting monthly salary. For the last several months our salary has been pending. We urged the government to clear all our pending salaries," said Purnima Das, a sanitation worker.

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