Bhopal, Mar 5: Large number of daily wages, work-charge and contract employees of the state, under the banner of Madhya Pradesh Karmachari Manch on Wednesday at 11 am staged a mammoth demonstration at Tin Shed in support of their five-point demands. Employees' leaders Ashok Pandey, Sharda Singh Parihar, Rajesh Mathur, Biharilal Napith, Satish Sharma, Sriram Nigam, Ghanshyam Bairagi and others addressed the gathering.

After the demonstration at Tin Shed the employees took out a rally, which went through New Market, Roshanpura and reached Vidhan Sabha where they have staged an aggressive demonstration and the leaders of the employees in the form of a delegation handed over a memorandum listing their five-point demands to the Chief Minister.

According to the employees leaders, the Chief Minister assured the delegation to consider their demands soon.

Meanwhile, the leaders informed, under the banner of Madhya Pradesh Karmachari Manch, the daily wagers have demonstrated in the entire state simultaneously and handed over memoranda in the name of the Chief Minister to the respective district collectors. The employees of Forest, Water Resources, PWD, Narmada Valley Development Authority, PHE, Woman and Child Development, Panchayat and Rural Development department participated in the demonstration.

Pandey in a press release informed that 55000 daily wages emplyees, 82000 workcharge employees, 35000 contract employees and 1.35 lakh labourers took one day leave and participated in the demonstration.

Direct recruitment flayed

The state government employees association has condemned the direct recruitment in the Technical Education department influenced with the bureaucrats. State president of the organisation, Sheel Pratap Singh in a statement issued here on Monday said that the state government restricting the departmental promotions has started direct recruitment in the Technical Education department. It is completely against the norms as the departmental employees have been waiting for promotion for years.

The organisation has decided to hand over a memorandum to the chief secretary and principal secretary of General Administration Department.

Vigilance team detects power theft

By Our Staff Reporter

Bhopal, Mar 5: The vigilance team of Central Region Electricity Distribution Company has detected a case of electricity theft in Morena in a stone cutting factory. The factory owner has been given a bill of Rs 13.38 lakh and a bill of Rs 6 lakh under Electricity Act-2003.

The team on a tip off inspected the said factory and found all seals of the meter box tampered and broken with a remote sensor attached with metering system. The team seized the material used in this theft and disconnected electric supply of the said factory.

Grievances redressal camps

Central Region Electricity Distribution Company has been organising camp for the redressal of complaints of electricity consumers. In the month of February, 112 camps were organised. In 508 cases, Billing of 27 Lakh Rupees was waived off to give relief to the consumers.

Bill payment counters to remain open

The Central Region Electricity Distribution Company has instructed to open all Bill payment counters on all days in the month of March. These counters will be open on holidays related Second Saturday, All Sundays, 6 March (Shiv Ratri), 21 March (Good Friday), 22 March (Holi), 26 March (Rang Panchami). Bill payment centres at all four City divisions, all zonal offices, Danish Nagar, Misrod and Mandideep will be open as normal working days in the month of March. Consumers can pay bill through Round the Clock in Zonal Call Centre.