Strike plan threatens HSC results

While the examining work is nearly over, minor details are being processed with a meeting of the examination committee scheduled soon to decide on the date of declaring the HSC results. While the staff employees sported black badges from May 15-17, they are now poised to stage a work-to-rule agitation from May 23 and the entire lot will take mass casual leave on May 25 to highlight their demands.

While time-bound promotions is their major demand, the employees have also lamented that despite the State Government resolution to appoint one junior clerk for every 3,000 students for examination purposes the board has not done so. In fact, with the increasing number of students it was unfair to appoint only one junior clerk, Mukund Pote, secretary of the Karmachari Sanghatana said.

Demanding implementation of the GR issued in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in R K Sabharwal Vs Punjab Government, they have urged that peons should not be transferred. What has aggravated matters is that a circular issued by the board on May 14 said there were more than the required number of peons in the board and directed them to sign an undertaking expressing their willingness to be transferred to any of the remaining divisional boards of Aurangabad, Amravati, Nashik, Latur and Kolhapur. Refusing to sign the undertaking, several Class IV employees claimed there was a need for more such appointments instead of reducing their strength.

Coinciding with the unrest in the board is the indefinite hunger strike launched by three employees Mahesh Ahire, Shriram Gavai and Balkrishna Gadekar whose regular promotions were denied and the former two were transferred to Nashik on the same post.

While the employees had time and again submitted demands to Vijay Patil, chairman of State Board, the federation8217;s office bearers claimed he did not take any decision.