Municipal & Treasury staff to join NGOs strike

Vijayawada: More than 15000 municipal; employees and 3000 Treasury staff will join NGOs strike from the midnight of Monday. Municipal employees unions of Seemandhra region have gathered at municipal guest house here on Sunday and decided to join the strike.

Machilipatnam Municipal Commissionner S Sivarama Krishna, addressing the media, said that municipal and municipal corporations staff are gearing up to support the strike called by APNGOs as the Congress high command was not responding on the Samaikyandhra agitation.

He said that Digvijay Singh had no idea on the State and misguided Sonia Gandhi in taking decision on Telangana. Seemandhra MPs and ministers had not questioned Sonia’s decision as they were worried about their personnel benefits. They are not in a position to support their people in critical times, he said.

He said that the municipal employees JAC had decided to support the strike call of APNGOs. More than 15,000 municipal employees will participate in the strike. Emergency services like medical, sanitary and crematoriums will be exempted from these strikes, he said. We are much worried about the people here. But this is now or never. We can’t unite the State if it gets separated once, he said.
Sivarama Krishna added that “People of Seemandhra had worked hard to develop Hyderabad. People of this region deserve equal rights on Hyderabad along with Telangana people. But now Telangana people are demanding us to leave Hyderabad.

The Central government should come forward and give clarity on all the prevailing issues,” he said. Treasury staff too The Andhra Pradesh Treasury Services Association (APTSA) has announced its support to the strike called by APNGOs from the night of August 12, 2013.

APTSA general secretary K Rajkumar, extending support to the APNGOs association here on Sunday, said that employees of 194 sub treasuries, 13 district treasury offices would join the strike from August 13. Over 3000 Treasury employees will participate in the strike. Government organisations will face difficulties as receipts and payments will be delayed if Treasury employees participate in the strike. It is estimated that over Rs 300 crore receipts and Rs 500 crore payments will be stalled, he said.

APTSA president G Ravi Kumar accused the Seemandhra MPs and ministers of non-committal on the unity of the State. They are worried about their political career than Seemandhra, he said. He demanded the people’s representatives to resign from their posts and join the movement or else their photos would be displayed as missing on the walls of libraries, he said.

Ravi Kumar alleged that the Congress government was trying to prolong this issue till 2014 elections. Our main demand would be resignations of people’s representative and submit them in Speaker format and come forward to support the Samaikyandhra agitation.
He alleged that the Government was trying to suppress the movement. “We are not going to take back our decision to go on strike at any cost,” he declared. APTSA treasurer B Hari Kumar, Krishna district committee members and others were present.