Thursday, 19 August 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The members of the UPNL employees union warned of protest against the State government if their issues are not discussed in the upcoming cabinet meeting.
The president of the union, Kushagra Joshi said that cabinet minister Ganesh Joshi had promised the protesting outsourced employees of Uttarakhand Purva Sainik Kalyan Nigam Limited (UPNL) in April that their demand of equal pay for equal work among others will be presented in the cabinet meeting but nothing has been done so far. “We even protested outside Joshi’s residence on Tuesday but he did not meet us.
On Wednesday, we protested outside the residence of state minister Harak Singh Rawat but his personal secretary informed us that Rawat is in Delhi and he has assured us that our matter will be presented in the next cabinet meeting,” stated the union president. He said that if the minister does not keep his word, they will start a state-wide protest. “We will stage protests in each and every district. The association will also gherao Vidhan Sabha during the upcoming monsoon session if our matter is not raised in the cabinet,” asserted Joshi.
