Bhubaneswar: Thousands of outsourcing employees under the banner of Odisha Government Outsourcing Employees’ Federation (OGOEF) Saturday held a massive demonstration at Mahatma Gandhi Marg demanding the fulfilment of their demands.
The demands included regularisation of their services, service security till their job were regularised, hike in salary and reappointment of retrenched outsourcing employees.
Federation’s president Sanjay Patnaik threatened to launch a massive public awareness campaign from panchayat to state level in order to apprise the people about their plight and garner public support before the election if their demands were not met.
He demanded the government to appoint the outsourcing employees in 2.30 lakh posts lying vacant in Group B, C and D and to provide service security and hike the salary till the appointments were made. Patnaik said they would meet the Chief Minister and the Chief Secretary Sunday to resolve their problem.
He said they decided to hit the street although the government had assured them several times in the past to fulfil their demands but failed to keep its promise.
In 2018, the then Chief Secretary Aditya Padhi had given a written assurance to fulfil their demands within one month. However, five years have passed nothing happened so far.
In 2021, the CM also announced to hike the salary of outsourcing employees by 25 per cent and fulfil their demands within two months. But till now, 75 per cent of the employees have not got the hike in their salary and other demands were not met so far.
Similarly, in November 2022 after a massive rally by the outsourcing employees, the government promised to fulfil their demands within one month but it did not materialise.
The government February 18 last year, assured to fulfil their demands by the end of February but nothing happened so far.
Agencies