During the protest, the assurances given in the negotiations were not followed, President Epaka. Photo: File
Lahore: EPCA and civil secretariat employees are unhappy, the budget is rejected.
The Punjab Civil Secretariat Employees Coordination Council has called the current increase in salaries in the budget as insufficient and has demanded a 100% increase in salary in proportion to inflation.
Chairman Raja Sohail Ahmed, President Mohammad Sultan Gujjar, General Secretary Chaudhry Ghulam Ghos said that travel and medical allowance should be doubled, Pensioners’ Benefit Association leaders Asghar Ali Sindhu and Rafiq Hasan Shah rejected the increase in pension and demanded that the pension should be doubled. should be increased by 50%.
APICA President Haji Muhammad Irshad Chaudhry has said that the assurances given to the APICA leadership in the negotiations have not been followed, the upgradation of federal employees has not been made equal to that of the provinces, nor has medical and convenience allowances been increased. In these circumstances, the trend of suicides is feared to increase.
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