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Turf war leads to split in APNGOs
An intense turf war within the AP government employees triggered a split in the JAC (Joint Action Committee) of government employees ahead of the elections.
Amaravati: An intense turf war within the AP government employees triggered a split in the JAC (Joint Action Committee) of government employees ahead of the elections.
The breakaway group held a state-level conference in Tirupati to float a new Joint Action Committee with the likeminded associations as its active partners, led by Bopparaju Venkateswarlu, president of the AP Revenue Services Association.
The leaders of the splinter group said AP NGOs Association president P Ashok Babu has become an agent of the government which deprives the government employees of their due in several aspects.
The pro-government postures of Ashok Babu, they said, necessitated a parallel organisation to defend the rights and safeguard the privileges of employees.
Ashok Babu is heading the employees JAC as chairman in his capacity as the president of the AP NGOs association.
The splinter group claimed to be enjoying support of nearly 80 associations representing various departments. There are nearly 9 lakh pensioners and government employees in the state.
NGOs alone account for 40,000 of the total employees under the umbrella of 105 associations.
Ashok Babu, it is alleged, has earned more enemies than friends during his stint as the JAC chairman and NGOs Association president for his reported failure to take the fellow employees on board and give them an outlet.
He is accused of failing to take up the problems such as hike in wages of contract workers, house sites for employees who shifted to Amaravati from Hyderabad, among others, with the government for solution effectively.
However, Ashok Babu refuted the allegations and maintained that the JAC has succeeded in its mission to ensure wage fixation for state government employees at par with their counterparts in the central government.
He asserted that the JAC under his stewardship walked the extra mile during the Samaikhyandhra movement in protecting the interests of the employees and the state as a whole.
He also took credit for the 43 per cent fitment benefit offered by the government as part of wage revision, while suspecting vested interests in engineering a split to weaken the militancy of government employees.
He also stated that the government has offered DA hike recently only because of his efforts.
By: K Muniraju
