GANGTOK,
10 July: Officials of the state government keep passing the buck when it comes
to taking responsibility, or even explaining clearly the reasons for the delay
in payment of the pending salaries of the recently ‘regularized’ muster roll
and work charged employees of the state government. While the entire lot of
temporary employees regularized under the Power Department – about 1,400 of
them - have not received their salaries for four months running now, some from other
departments who have been regularized are still receiving MR or WC wages and
not the scale of regularized employees.
Today
again, the MR & WC employees who had been regularized before the elections,
had to return home after a meeting with the Chief Secretary none the wiser as
to why their salaries are in abeyance or by when they can expect to receive
their dues.
The
Chief Secretary, in the interaction with the employees today is reported to
have linked the non-payment of salaries to the order issued by the Department
of Personnel putting the regularization process in ‘abeyance’. This explanation
has been offered by other officers as well but is confusing because it is
clearly the regularization process that has been kept in abeyance, not the dues
of those who had already been regularized before the DoP circular was issued.
Eventually,
the large group of employees who called on the Chief Secretary today to discuss
the salary issue had to be satisfied with the advise to wait for the return of
the Chief Minister from New Delhi.
A
section of the employees informed that the Chief Secretary has spoken to the Chief
Minister about the issue and had also faxed a message to the CM in New Delhi
regarding the pending dues of the employees and their grievance over the nonpayment.
“We have been told that there is nothing that any Head of Department or the
Chief Secretary can do about it; we just have to wait for the CM to return,” stated
an employee to NOW!
“We will
seek an appointment with the CM as soon as he returns and put our grievance to
him personally,” stated another employee.
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