Pune Beat

8220;While the casual workforce had personal reasons for not working the 14 regular announcers struck work to display solidarity with the black badges8217; at the all-India level,8221; he added.

AIR announcers across the country are on two-day protest leave to press for their pending demands of pay parity with programme executives and assistant station directors and more avenues for promotions, stressed Joshi.

According to station director Ashok Sharma, executives and duty officers have been deployed for the two days to meet with the workload of absent announcers.

Hawkers8217; case
The hearing of the M G Road hawkers8217; case has been postponed to July 3. An execution proceeding was filed by the hawkers against the Pune Cantonment Board PCB for its failure to implement the compromise deed in the court of junior division civil judge V K Shevale.

Advocate M V Akolkar had contended that the PCB had failed to allot space to the 96 hawkers who were operating from M G Road prior to December 1997 at Abaji Maidan located near Poona College which had been chosen as the second alternative site for relocating the hawkers. PCB Counsel M P Bendre who urged for more time to file his say was granted time till July 3 for the same.