Various sections of the Haryana state government employees and officers,including school principals,district education officers,deputy and block education officers,wore black badges to mark their resentment at a protest march held in front of the office of the deputy commissioner on Wednesday,demanding the removal of the anomalies in the new pay structure. In a memorandum addressed to the chief minister,the agitators,under the banner of Haryana School Education Officers Association,led by state president Sudhir Kalra,stated that the grades granted to these categories had been lowered,which was against the assurances given by the chief minister and finance minister. Members of the Haryana Federation of Engineers,meanwhile,also wore black badges to express their resentment alleging discrimination by the pay revision committee. They,too,held a protest meeting at the PWD rest house,in which superintending engineers,executive engineers and other ranks from PWD,were present. They threatened that if the state government did not take action on their demands,it would adversely affect the work of government.
