BARPETA, March 20 � The postal service in Barpeta district was severely affected as the indefinite strike launched by the Barpeta district unit of All India Gramin Dak Sevak Employees� Union entered eleventh day today.
The employees of the rural post offices numbering 218 began their indefinite strike demanding fulfilment of their long standing demands.
As most of the areas in the district are covered by the branch post offices situated in deep rural areas lakhs of people in the district has not received any communication through the post offices for the last eleven days.
A spokesperson of the union informed this correspondent that they have neither received nor despatched any mail since the indefinite strike began. Besides the post offices have also not accepted any deposit towards savings or recurring accounts. Rural postal life insurance service has also been suffered due to the strike. He stated that the government will suffer a major setback due to the loss incurred in the insurance sector as there had been a good sale during the month of March.
The unemployed youths will be the worst suffer as the calling letters for the interviews and tests are not despatched through the post offices due to the strike, the sources said.
The demands of the employees include regularisation of their service and to provide them all the facilities at par with the regular employees, constitution of a judicial committee to fix the pay scale of the employees etc.
In a statement Mazibar Rahman, secretary of Barpeta district unit of All India Gramin Dak Sevak Employees� Union informed that the four day-long strike of the union in February last year was withdrawn following an accord between the Union and the Postal Board. But the present government in the Centre is going to violate the accord and the hopes and aspirations of the rural postal employees are going to fade up with the passage of time. Four stages of agitation programmes have been implemented to register their protest against the move. But the government has not yet attended to their demands.
BARPETA, March 20 � The postal service in Barpeta district was severely affected as the indefinite strike launched by the Barpeta district unit of All India Gramin Dak Sevak Employees� Union entered eleventh day today.
The employees of the rural post offices numbering 218 began their indefinite strike demanding fulfilment of their long standing demands.
As most of the areas in the district are covered by the branch post offices situated in deep rural areas lakhs of people in the district has not received any communication through the post offices for the last eleven days.
A spokesperson of the union informed this correspondent that they have neither received nor despatched any mail since the indefinite strike began. Besides the post offices have also not accepted any deposit towards savings or recurring accounts. Rural postal life insurance service has also been suffered due to the strike. He stated that the government will suffer a major setback due to the loss incurred in the insurance sector as there had been a good sale during the month of March.
The unemployed youths will be the worst suffer as the calling letters for the interviews and tests are not despatched through the post offices due to the strike, the sources said.
The demands of the employees include regularisation of their service and to provide them all the facilities at par with the regular employees, constitution of a judicial committee to fix the pay scale of the employees etc.
In a statement Mazibar Rahman, secretary of Barpeta district unit of All India Gramin Dak Sevak Employees� Union informed that the four day-long strike of the union in February last year was withdrawn following an accord between the Union and the Postal Board. But the present government in the Centre is going to violate the accord and the hopes and aspirations of the rural postal employees are going to fade up with the passage of time. Four stages of agitation programmes have been implemented to register their protest against the move. But the government has not yet attended to their demands.
