Treasury employees hold out closure threat

: From our Correspondent JORHAT, Feb 3: The All Assam Treasury Employees’ Association has threatened to abstain from work from February 23 if the State Government fails to issue any official order regarding the fulfilment of its long-standing demands. In a statement, general secretary of the association Prodip Rajkhowa said that the treasury employees would not soften their stand for the completion of official transactions at the end of the current fiscal year in March. “We have been forced to adopt such a measure due to the repeated negligence on the part of the State Government,” he added. The treasury employees are demanding increase of reservations for them in Assam Revenue Service from the current 10 per cent to 30 per cent, eligibility of only graduates for treasury posts, creation of posts of superintendent, record keeper and chowkidar in every treasury office and construction of quarters and separate offices. The All Assam Treasury Employees’ Association claimed that the State Government had conceded to their demands through a written note on September 25 last year. However, no official order regarding the acceptance of the demands has reached the association as yet, it maintained. Meanwhile, as part of the first phase of their agitation, the employees of all treasury and sub-treasury offices wore black badges on Monday and Tuesday. They will resort to a poster campaign from February 4 to February 8 in the second phase.