The AP Government Employees Association (APGEA) has served a notice to the government on its phase-wise agitation — beginning on 22 May — for the fulfillment of the employees’ demands. The association alleged that the government has acted vindictively whenever it has raised employee-related issues.
The state has held back several financial benefits that are due to the employees, which resulted in the accumulation of arrears amounting to thousands of crores of rupees, the association charged.
Demands of the APGEA APGEA president KR Suryanarayana said that the situation has reached a stage where the employees do not know when their salaries would be credited into their accounts.
On top of this, the government has withdrawn ₹480 crore in March last year from the General Provident Fund (GPF) accounts of the employees, which is a crime, he contended.
Suryanarayana added that the government has failed to honour its commitment to hike the dearness allowance (DA) and the wages of the outsourced employees, as well as to regularise the services of contract workers.
Apart from this, the government has turned vengeful towards employees because they have been questioning the government on the injustice done to them, he said.
