Port Blair, May 22: Andaman Sarvajanik Nirman Vibhag Mazdoor Sangh (ASNVMS), affiliated to CITU, urged the Administration not to pressurize daily rated mazdoors for furnishing undertaking for grant of 1/30th of pay plus DA benefit. In a letter sent to the Chief Secretary, A & N Administration, SP Kalairajan, General Secretary of ASNVMS stated that daily rated workers working in various Divisions of APWD are being forced/pressurized to furnish an undertaking of not claiming the regularization of services, for extending the benefit of 1/30th of pay plus DA to them. He told the Chief Secretary that the financial benefit of 1/30th of pay plus DA has been granted to the DRMs as per the judgment of the High Court at Calcutta in the matter of Lt. Governor-vs-ASNVMS (MA/09/2020). In the said order, there is no direction about obtaining any undertaking from the DRMs or any other condition for grant of 1/30th of pay plus DA.
The Union categorically told the Chief Secretary that it is the right of the workers to demand regularization of their services which cannot be taken away by the Administration by forcefully obtaining any undertaking from the workers. The Union further demanded to issue necessary instructions to the Heads of Departments under the Administration in this regard.
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