CPM slams Pay panel proposal to scrap Group D posts

The resolution also recorded the party’s protest over the pay commission’s “discrimination” in favour of high-level officers vis-à-vis that of lower level employees, including in the defence forces.

It also asked the Centre to pay up 50 per cent of funds that the state Governments may require to make up for the wage hike that the Sixth Central Pay Commission’s recommendations would now cause in the states — 90 per cent of the difference, in the case of north eastern states.

Another resolution called for the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill—as promised in the Common Minimum Programme — aiming to provide one-third of all seats in the state Assemblies and Parliament to women.

The resolution said the UPA Government should not be restricted by just one of its constituents coming in the way over the Bill, given the support that the idea has across political parties.

A third resolution demanded job quotas for Dalits and Adivasis in the private sector, recognition of all Namashudra communities as Dalits and recognition of the rights of “Dalit Muslims” and “Dalit Christians,” among others.

The CPI(M) party Congress also resolved to urge the UPA Government to include the Scheduled Tribes and other Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution to protect tribal interests, and to stop all evictions of tribals from forests forthwith.

The resolution called for the reversal of all tribal evictions after 2005, and restoration of the land to the tribals.