BHUBANESWAR:
Around 17,000 members of the Nikhila Utkal Gruharakhi Mahasangha (NUGM) have
threatened to gherao the State Assembly on Friday over their fulfillment of
their six-point charter of demands. The association went on strike from
Wednesday and cautioned the Government that they would follow civil
disobedience path during the agitation at the Lower PMG here
on Friday.
The home guards, working across
the State, demanded that the authority should stop indiscriminate retrenchment
of home guards. The Government should formulate new rules for them, said
working president of NUGM Sanjay Kumar Behera.
The six-point charter of demands
of the Mahasangh include daily allowance of Rs 200 to Rs 500, set up of welfare
fund, granting of ESI and EPF, Government recognition for the Mahasangha and
discrimination in pay of salary to company commander, platoon commander and
home guards.
“The Mahasangha has been
demanding before the State Government to fulfill their demands, but their voice
is not being heard properly. This time we would not listen anyone till their
demands are fulfilled,” said Behera.
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