Call for pay parity with Central Government employees

Call for pay parity with Central Government employees

JORHAT, Feb 11: The State Government should pay salaries to its employees on a par with that paid to Central Government employees. Demanding this at the open session of All Assam Ministerial Officers’ Association held at Jorhat District Library auditorium here today, president of Sadou Asom Karmachari Parishad (SAKP) Pradip Bora maintained that the employees would extend support to the State Government of the day provided the latter was sympathetic towards the needs of the former. Press adviser to the Chief Minister Debo Kumar Bora, who released the souvenir Kalam published on the occasion of the two-day 80th State-level convention of All Assam Ministerial Officers’ Association, said that the “elected and appointed democrats” should work in mutual harmony. The problems between the Government and employees have to be resolved in a give-and-take spirit, he stated. Bora underlined the schemes undertaken by the Tarun Gogoi-led State Government “for the welfare of the employees.” SAKP general secretary Basab Kalita and other office-bearers of employees’ bodies were present at the open session chaired by president of All Assam Ministerial Officers’ Association Tanu Krishna Goswami. Former organizing secretary of All Assam Ministerial Officers’ Association Hem Barua was felicitated in the today’s meet.