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Sugar Coop staff stage stir for pending salaries
The employees staged a dharna at Gandhi Statue here on Thursday, demanding that the management of the Chittoor District Cooperative Sugars clear pending salaries. Addressing the agitating employees, Chittoor Cooperative Sugars Employees Union general secretary P Kesava Reddy came down heavily on the management for not remitting their salaries for 43 months.
Chittoor: The employees staged a dharna at Gandhi Statue here on Thursday, demanding that the management of the Chittoor District Cooperative Sugars clear pending salaries. Addressing the agitating employees, Chittoor Cooperative Sugars Employees Union general secretary P Kesava Reddy came down heavily on the management for not remitting their salaries for 43 months.
He stated that sugar factory used to run in profits in which 3,600 farmers are the shareholders and alleged that the factory was closed due to political pressure. The union leader said that they are exerting pressure on the TDP government for the last three years to resume the defunct factory.
He lamented that 420 permanent and contract staff are leading miserable lives as they are not paid salaries. Kesava Reddy demanded that the state government should remit their salaries immediately and reemploy them in suitable cooperative institutions.
He further said several employees have committed suicide in the last three years for not receiving salaries. He alleged the TDP government was hatching a conspiracy to sell away the sick unit without clearing the dues of the sugarcane farmers. He warned that the employees of the sugar factory would intensify the stir if the government failed to fulfil their demands.
Chittoor Farmers Union leader Venkatachalam Naidu stated that the Chief Minister should take steps for resuming Chittoor Cooperative Dairy, Chittoor Cooperative Sugars and Renigunta Sugar Factory to protect the interest of the farmers. The TDP government has failed to safeguard the interests of farmers particularly in Chittoor district. “CM has no concern to develop his own district even though thousands of farmers are facing difficulties.
To develop his Heritage Dairy, Chandrababu had closed Chittoor Cooperative Dairy. The farmers would teach a lesson to the Chief Minister in the next elections,” he alleged. He gave a call to employees and farmer to fight against the management of Chittoor Cooperative sugars. The union leaders’ T Mani, Venkata Prasad, Jaya Muni and others spoke. The employees took out a rally from Gandhi Statue to the Collectorate and submitted a memorandum to the Administrative Officer.
