Statistical Sub-Committee stage Mass Demonstration in front of the Directorate of Economics & Statistics

The Statistical Sub-Committee of the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association has staged a Mass Demonstration in front of the Directorate of Economics and Statistics at Port Blair today (10.09.2013) afternoon, demanding some of the pending and genuine demands of the employees belonging to the Amalgamated Statistical Cadre.   Inaugurating the Mass Demonstration, Shri HL Prasad, Vice President of the Association called upon the employees of Statistical Department to continue to protest against the injustice meted out to them by the department.  Speaking on the occasion, Shri D. Ayyappan, General Secretary of the Association explained in detail the issues on which the employees are staging the Mass Demonstration and the indiscriminate and anti-employee attitude adopted by the Administration towards these genuine demands of the Statistical Cadre employees.    The  demands  highlighted during the  mass demonstration were (1) to implement the court order on the merger of 19 posts of Senior Investigators with  the posts of Statistical Officers  (2)  immediate restructuring of the Amalgamated Statistical Cadre to  remove stagnation among the  staff  (3)  upgraded pay for the  post of Junior Investigators and (4) filling up of vacant posts. 

          Shri TS Sreekumar, Assistant General Secretary, Shri DS Clement Stephen, Organising Secretary, Shri Anand Raj, Secretary, Secretariat Sub-Committee and Shri SL Vinjit, Joint Secretary of the South Andaman Teachers’ Branch of the Association and Shri A. Selvam and Shri Mohammed Ayub  also  addressed the  gathering.   Shri CH Ramamoorthy, Secretary, Statistical Sub-Committee of the Association proposed vote of thanks.    Almost all the employees belonging to the Statistical Cadre posted at Port Blair and South Andaman areas, among them a  large number of  women employees,  participated in the Mass Demonstration.