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Government employees in Andhra Pradesh show their strength ahead of strike

In an enormous demonstration of solidarity in front of their endless strike from February 7, government workers and educators from across Andhra Pradesh accumulated in Vijayawada on Thursday, resisting police boycott and limitations to press their interest for a more significant compensation correction.


It was probably the greatest get-together found lately as workers, educators and beneficiaries met up for 'Chalo Vijayawada' called by 'PRC Sadhana Samiti', the joint activity council of all associations of representatives and retired people.


BRTS street in the city resounded with mottos of amazement need equity'. Holding banners of their separate associations and pennants, the protestors took out an enormous assembly from AP NGO Bhavan to BRTS Road.


The dissent was a thundering accomplishment as coordinators asserted that one lakh individuals took part in it while three lakh more were halted by the police in different pieces of the state.


The police, which had denied authorization for the dissent considering Covid-19 circumstance and set up checkposts, could never really stop an influx of protestors flooding the vital conduit in the city. Challenging all limitations, workers, instructors, retired people and even agreement representatives arrived at the scene.


Regardless of the checkposts, blockades and different measures taken by the police, protestors poured in from all bearings. Many came to via vehicles, three-wheelers and even by bikes to join what is portrayed as the greatest exhibit by government workers in numerous years.


The protestors walked through the BRTS street. A few embraced novel techniques to stop their dissent by singing or by asking.


They requested that the public authority reclaim the Government Order (GO) gave last month, fixing new compensation scales according to 23 percent pay correction. They contend that since they were getting 27% interval alleviation the GO has prompted descending amendment in their pay rates.


The workers are requesting that the public authority disclose Pay Revision Commission (PRC) report.


"Our requests are simply. We are requesting the public authority to give us our freedoms," said a worker taking an interest in the meeting.


The workers scrutinized the 'unyielding' mentality of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government. "We don't need your converse PRC. Pay us pay rates according to the old compensation scales," said another worker.


Tending to the mammoth assembling, the heads of PRC Sadhana Samiti clarified that their dissent will proceed till the public authority acknowledges their requests.


"The public authority halted transports and trains yet it couldn't stop workers," said one of the pioneers Bandi Srinivasa Rao.


The pioneers said the workers would proceed with the strike from February 7. They said the whole organization will grind to a halt and the public authority would be liable for the bother caused to individuals.


They requested Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to intercede and call them for converses with resolve the issue. "We are fighting in a serene way. As yet everything's not lost. We demand the central pastor to intercede and acknowledge our simply requests," he said.


Regardless of police denying consent for the dissent and the checks forced across the state, huge number of representatives, educators and retired people figured out how to reach here on a call given by called Raising mottos of 'we need equity' and The assembly stopped traffic in the bustling regions.


Police had denied consent for 'Chalo Vijayawada' and confined a few chiefs across the state.


Refering to the disavowal of authorization for the dissent program considering Covid-19 pandemic circumstance, the police confined heads of different associations of government representatives and educators in different regions.


The pioneers were either positioned under house capture or called to police headquarters to serve sees, guiding them not to leave for Vijayawada for the dissent. They were being informed that assuming they proceed with the dissent, move will be made against them according to law.


Vijayawada Police Commissioner Kanti Rana Tata had said that there was no consent for 'Chalo Vijayawada'. He said according to the rules gave by the focal and state legislatures, any program with a social occasion of more than 200 ought not be permitted. The chief said since north of 5,000 representatives are probably going to take part in 'Chalo Vijayawada' authorization was not given for something similar.


In the interim, home pastor M. Sucharita rejected that workers were captured or halted. She said the issue can be settled distinctly through talks.

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