Ludhiana: Civic employees protest outside the A office of the civic body. Ludhiana News – Times of India

The union members announced that they would launch regular protests from next week if their demands were not addressed.

Ludhiana: Demonstration was held outside a zonal office of Municipal Corporation Mata Rani Chowk on Wednesday by the members of sewer men safai karamchari sangharsh committee.
Demonstrated a protest demanding regularization of them class IV employee Which was announced during the assembly elections and even approved. The union members announced that they would launch regular protests from next week if their demands were not addressed. He also threatened to burn effigies of elected representatives from next week.
However, the dharna started at 10 am and ended at around 2.30 pm. The main gate of the Zone A office was blocked by the protesting employees, while the smaller gate was opened for the movement of the public as well as the MC staff present inside the office. Protests have become a regular affair in Zone A office creating problems for the visitors as they are not allowed to enter/exit from the main entrance.
The members claimed that they have been regularly sitting on dharna for almost a month but the authorities are not taking their demands seriously. He claimed that these employees were announced regular jobs by the then Congress leaders and former CMs Charanjit Singh Channi Even the proposal to regularize at least 3000 class IV employees was approved.
Work orders were also issued to some but the process was stopped midway due to the election code of conduct. He lamented that when the government changed, everything became stable and now no one is talking about it.
one of the union members Yashpal Chaudhary Neither the AAP government nor Congress Mayor Balkar Sandhu is listening to the demands of the employees, so now we will start burning the effigies of all the concerned. They said that they would sit on regular and daily dharna from next week if their demands were not met.
Meanwhile other demands of the union members include implementation of a school for the employees of the municipal body for quality education old pension scheme, Recruitment The probation period of Sanitary Inspectors should be reduced from 3 years to one year etc.