Pakistan : Monitoring staff to go on strike
TAXILA, July 18: Scores of monitoring and evaluation assistants (MEAs) working in the Chief Minister’s Monitoring Force (CMMF) on July 17 announced to go on a strike demanding an increase in
salaries and regularisation of their services.
The assistants, under the leadership of their provincial president Rana Ashfaq Ahmad, on July 17 said after their 12-year-service in the education department they had neither been given an increase in salaries nor their services were being regularised.
They said the CMMF was established in 2004 during the tenure of the then chief minister Punjab, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi. To run the force, almost 900 MEAs were appointed on contractual basis to monitor the education department.
They said that last year the Lahore High Court had also given a verdict in favour of the assistants but the government was yet to implement the verdict.
They said they would go on a strike till a notification was issued by the government for the increase in their salaries as per the verdict of the LHC.
Published by Daily Dawn on July 18, 2016
