Clerks’ strike continues, admin comes to a halt

The strike of Haryana state clerks, which has been ongoing for the last 15 days, has badly affected the state. The work in most of the departments and board corporations of the districts has been forced to a standstill. According to an estimate, the state government is losing revenue of more than Rs 200 crores daily. The maximum impact is on the tehsils and the registration authority of vehicles.
Apart from the clerks, a large number of assistants, deputy superintendents and superintendents are also involved in the strike. The major thing here is that the employees involved in the strike are involved in emergency duty in flood-affected areas, but do not mark their attendance. In view of this clerk strike, the Chief Minister’s OSD Jawahar Yadav also held a meeting with a delegation of the Clerks Association in Chandigarh last week, but they failed to come to a solution. The demand of the Association is that a meeting should be arranged with the Chief Minister.
Presently, the basic pay of the clerks in Haryana is Rs 19,900 and they are demanding to increase it to Rs 35,400. If the basic pay of clerks increases, then the basic pay of assistants, deputy superintendents and superintendents will be fixed accordingly. This is the reason why the employees in these three categories are also involved in the strike. Due to this strike, all works related to the registry and land in the tehsils have come to a grinding halt. People are also facing trouble with the registration and licensing of their vehicles. At the same time, the Opposition parties have also got a chance to surround the government on the pretext of this strike.
Former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said that instead of implementing the decisions taken by the previous government, the current government is bent on cancelling them.
Dharnas are being organised by clerks, assistants, deputy superintendents and superintendents in mini secretariats at district headquarters. On the other hand, a state-level dharna is going on in the ground located in Sector-5 of Panchkula. The clerks started their strike on 5 July and it is still ongoing. Civil services have also been badly affected due to this strike.