KAPURTHALA/PHAGWARA:On a call given by Council of Diploma Engineers North , all Junior Engineers, Assistant Engineers,
Sub Divisional Engineers, SDOs went on “Pen Down Strike” in protest against wrongfully implemented 6th Pay Commission reports here today.
Manjinder Singh Mattenangal (Chairman), Sukhwinder Singh Bagwani (Secretary General), Dilpreet Singh from Punjab and Himachal Pradesh
Chandigarh (UT) Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir Lohat Senior Vice Chairman, State President Diploma Engineers Association, PWD
(Buildings and Roads) Branch, Punjab today addressed the protesters at various places.
Addressing the protesters SDO Pardeep Chattani said that the government should immediately accept the legitimate and legitimate
demands of this section. He demanded from the government to restore the scale of this category for the year 2011 and give a multiplication
of 3 • 01, to restore the fixed travelling allowance to 80 liters, from the post of Chandigarh Patron and Junior Engineer to the post of
Sub Divisional Engineer Civil.
It was demanded that the promotion quota should be increased from 50% to 75%, retention of raw employees, restoration of old age pension
etc. should be implemented immediately. Various Leaders, said that any democratic struggle program offered by the council would be made a
complete success. The protest was attended by a large number of Junior Engineers, Assistant Engineers, Advanced Sub-Divisional Engineers from
all the Engineering Departments, including: Sewerage Board, Pankaj Kumar, Baljinder Singh SDO, Navdeep Singh, Harminder Singh, Gurpreet,
Rakeesh Kumar Singh, Jatinder Singh, Additional Finance Secretary, Punjab, Jaskaran Singh, Kanwar Gill, Sachin Khanna, Santokh Singh,
Binder Kumar, Pankaj Sidhi, Sukhwinder Singh etc. (All JE / AE / Post Advanced – SDE, SDO) were present.