Employees of all departments demanded to cancel contributory pension scheme and implement old age pension scheme (OPS) without any conditions.They staged protest in front of collector’s office in Srikakulam on Saturday.
On the occasion, they lamented that the state government is trying to misguide employees by presenting proposal to guaranteed pension scheme (GPS) which is not at all acceptable.
The AP State government has been implementing CPS since September 1,2004 to woo investors, business people and to divert government funds to private business persons and their companies, they said.
As Opposition leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy assured to cancel CPS but, after assuming power he conveniently forgot all poll promise, the employees criticised.Leaders of employees’ unions of various departments attended and registered their protest by staging day long agitation.
Employees share a feeling that their union leaders have let them down by agreeing to scaled-down salary benefits proposed by the government after they had called off their proposed strike earlier.Eventually, the YSR Congress government reneged on its own electoral promise of restoring the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) in the place of the existing Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS).
The employee unions have been squarely rejecting the government’s proposals and sought the implementation of the OPS, which Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy had repeatedly promised while he was in opposition.
