MANGALORE, February 10, 2011
Give us our due: S.P Chengappa, advocate and president, Mangalore Bar
Association, addressing government employees during a protest in front
of Deputy Commissioner's office in Mangalore on Wednesday.
The State Government employees from Dakshina Kannada on Wednesday staged
a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office
reiterating their demand for pay parity with Union Government employees.
The protest was a part of the Statewide agitation called by the
Karnataka State Government Employees' Association.
Associations district unit general secretary Prakash
Nayak said a Group D employee was getting salary of Rs. 4,800 while his
counterpart in the Central Government was getting Rs. 7,800.
The difference in pay scale between the State and Union
Government employees across different levels ranged between Rs. 3,000
and Rs. 10,000, he said. Mr. Nayak said the salary that was paid to
government employees was based on the scale fixed in 2005. Although
other State governments had implemented the Sixth Pay Commission report
of the Union Government, the Karnataka Government was yet to do so.
“Since the last two years we have been assured of
action, but this has not happened,” he said. As the State budget would
be announced shortly, the association was reiterating its demand, he
added.
The government employees were concerned over the delay
in payment of salaries for government school teachers and the government
hospital staff, who came under the zilla panchayat.
The salary had been linked to the quarterly grants sanctioned to the zilla panchayat.
“Teachers had a hard time as they get salary once in three months,” said association vice-president George Pinto.
The employees were asking the State Government to de-link payment of salaries from the grants that were released.
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