Beset with a series of agitations and protests by various government employee Unions ahead of the Assembly polls, the Gujarat government has announced pay revisions for Police constables, Anganwadi workers, and others in an attempt to placate the employees ahead of the polls.
The Gujarat State Employees’ Coordination Committee, an umbrella body of the various Unions, has been demanding pay revision, end of the contract system, increasing allowance for extra work, and switching to the Old Pension Scheme.
In the Panchayat department; around 26,000 healthcare workers of different cadres like Multi-purpose Health Worker (MPHW), Female Health Worker (FHW), Multi-purpose Health Supervisor (MPHS) and Female Health Supervisor (FHS) from across the State had called for a strike in August this year.
