On Friday, government employees from various state organizations staged a demonstration at D-Chowk Islamabad, citing a variety of requests and rejecting a recent salary increase of 15% as a discrepancy allowance.
Employees of the Railways, the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), the Education Department of Balochistan, and the Hydro Union organized a protest against the government, according to information.
They believed that by only offering a 15% salary increase, the administration was attempting to shift attention away from their demands.
The protestors claimed that the government did not pay its own employees even the minimum wage of Rs. 20,000. They claimed that the government was a “hypocrite” that did not follow through on its pledges.
They voiced their disappointment that a huge number of employees were in difficult situations since they had not been regularized despite working for several years.
He claimed that for the past eight to twenty years, many people had been working on a contract, ad hoc, or contingency basis, but that they had not been regularized.
He claimed that the protestors wanted all contract, ad hoc, contingency, and daily pay workers to be regularized.
Chairman of the IESCO Workers Association, Samiullah, spoke at the event, saying that privatization of state-owned firms was unacceptable at any cost.
According to him, the government is considering privatizing electricity distribution businesses as part of an IMF initiative.
He saw that numerous governmental institutions lacked staff and funding, and that no one was promoted in a timely manner. He claimed that the government was concealing its incapacity to reform any institution.
He slammed the WAPDA, Post Office, Federal Government Educational Institutions, Tourism Development, PIA, and Railways for falling victim to the government’s privatization strategy.
The government should realize that a 15% salary increase is insufficient to make us permanent and implement institutional improvements.
The demonstration also included female teachers. They demanded that female teachers be promoted. They underlined that the government should break free from the grips of the IMF and address the shortage of salaries, promotions, and personnel in government organizations.
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