Mass Demonstration on 29th April, 2013

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          The  Confederation of Central Govt. Employees & Workers, New Delhi,  All India Railwaymen Federation and  All India Defence Employees Federation have  jointly decided to  start movement   on the demands  of  (1)  Setting  up of  7^th Central Pay Commission to effect wage revision of central government employees and (2)  To  withdraw PFRDA Bill from the Parliament.  The above three organizations have decided to call upon all Units and Branches of AIRF, Confederation and AIDEF to organize Demonstration on 29^th April, 2013 in front of all the central government offices  all over the country on the above demands. 

          The real value of wages determined by the 6^th Central Pay Commission has now been eroded due to the unprecedented inflation in the economy and spiraling rise in the prices of essential commodities.  While the Government permits wage negotiation and revision in the fully owned Public Sector Undertakings every five years, the denial to revise the wages of Central Government employees despite such large scale erosion in the real value of wages is absolutely unjustified. 

The Central Government had been persisting with the enactment of the PRFDA Bill in the Parliament in almost all sessions ever since the UPA II Government took over.  Ironically they could elicit support from the main Opposition Party in the country for this ill- advised enactment.  Lakhs of new workers who have joined in various organizations of the Government since 2004 are worried of their future, which is forlorn and bleak, in the wake of the denial of the social security scheme of Pension.  The Confederation of Central Govt. Employees & Workers, to which the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association, A & N Islands is affiliated, have been opposing this move right from the day the Government introduced the bill in the Parliament in 2003.  However, our efforts, actions and objections have all been ignored with disdain by the Government. Though the government could not muster enough support required to pass the bill in the Parliament, the Union Cabinet has recently taken the decision to allow 49% FDI in the pension fund.

          The Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association, Andaman and Nicobar Islands  has  decided to  organize the Mass Demonstration  in front of the  Secretariat, Port Blair  on 29^th  April, 2013  by mobilizing the  entire  government employees and workers working in these islands.