Government employees of Maharashtra on strike from today, there is a struggle for the old pension scheme

Union leaders say that the number of government employees appointed after 2005 is about 40 per cent. All of them should get old pension. There is a lot of resentment among the employees due to non-implementation of the old pension scheme. Effect of the strike: Government, semi-government, teachers, non-teaching staff, Municipal Corporation, Nagar Panchayat, Municipal Council and other government department personnel will be on strike.

Health services will falter due to the strike of 35 thousand health workers
Government employees are going on an indefinite strike from Tuesday demanding old pension scheme, allowance etc. Nurses and class IV employees of government hospitals will also participate in this strike. This can affect health services. However, the administration has also made preparations so that the patients do not face any problem.

In fact, government employees appointed after the year 2005 are not getting the benefit of old pension. Government employees are going on strike from Tuesday to ensure that they also get pension under the old scheme. Nurses working in government hospitals and about 35 thousand Class IV employees will participate in this strike. Sumitra Tote, general secretary of the Maharashtra State Nurses Association, said that around 22,000 nurses would go on strike from Tuesday morning itself. Apart from the old pension scheme, health workers are demanding equal pay, equal allowance, promotion.

Strike got support from AAP
Mumbai President of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Preeti Sharma Menon has announced to support the strike of government employees. The party’s Maharashtra organization minister Vijay Kumbhar said that during the election campaign in Punjab, his party had promised to re-implement the old pension scheme for government employees, which they fulfilled. Explain that according to the provisions of the new pension scheme, a part of the salary deduction of the employees is invested in the stock market. Hence, the post-retirement payout depends on the stock market conditions at the time of retirement. For these reasons, the new pension scheme is being opposed.

The work of board examinations and paper checking will be interrupted
Teachers and education workers of Maharashtra have decided to go on strike from 14th March. Due to the strike of the teachers, the work of board examinations and paper checking can be disrupted. According to Shivnath Radade, Mumbai Karyavah of the Maharashtra State Teachers Council, over 5,000 teachers and education workers from Mumbai schools and more than 5 lakh teachers and education workers from state schools are participating in the strike starting Tuesday. Till the government does not implement the old pension scheme, no teacher will return to work. Please tell that the 12th board exams are over, while the 10th are going on. In such a situation, the teachers going on strike will have a direct impact on the examinations.

letter sent to schools
According to Rajesh Pandya, Vice President of Teachers Democratic Front, the information about the strike has already been given to the government. The government has not taken any step. Due to this, the responsibility of the students and parents is the responsibility of the government. The teachers have informed the principal and the school management through letters about not coming on duty from Tuesday. Schools have been asked to make their own arrangements for conducting board exams. Even during the 12th board examinations, the junior college teachers also boycotted the work of paper checking for the demand of old pension. Due to the agitation of junior college teachers, the work of paper checking was stalled for about a week and about 50 lakh answer sheets were piled up at the centres. After the assurance of the Education Minister, the teachers called off the agitation. Angered by the non-fulfillment of the demand, teachers’ organizations of junior colleges may also join the strike.

16 lakh students will be affected
15,77,256 students of the state have registered for the 10th examination. 8,44,116 boys and 7,33,067 girls from 23,010 schools are appearing for the exam. Examinations are being conducted at 5,033 centers in the state. Till now the examination of five subjects has been done, while the examination of five subjects is yet to be done.