Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Apr 1: Under the aegis of the IPSEF, an umbrella organization of all public service employees all over the country, a national seminar on `Expectations of Public Service Employees from 7th Pay Commission’, was organized in ICHR Conference Hall, New Delhi.
Prominent leaders of federations of public service employees from various States like Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and NCT of Delhi, etc participated in the seminar.
The participants expressed concern over the continuous distortion of the pyramidical structure of the Government, resulting in huge bureaucratic set-up that is over-burdening an ever-decreasing number of mid and lower level officials. They also raised serious question over the Governments resorting to rampant contractual, casual, temporary and outsourced employment even on jobs of perennial nature.
During the seminar, it was resolved to put various demands of the public service employees before all the political parties and their candidates contesting Parliamentary elections.
These demands included; Constitution of a National Pay Commission, merger of DA up to the 50 percent of the basic pay; Abolition of new pension scheme and contractual employment system; Raising of Income Tax exemption limit to Rs 5 lakh and linking it to inflation; Providing uniform medical service to all public service employees; and Setting up of a uniform grievance redressal mechanism.
The seminar was presided over by V P Mishra, president, IPSEF and president, Uttar Pradesh Rajya Karmchari Sanyukt Parishad and participated by Ram Kumar Sharma and Rafique Ahmed Khanyari, president & the general secretary, Jammu & Kashmir Employees Joint Action Committee besides prominent trade union leaders from various states.
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