PANJIM: Drishti lifeguards held a demonstration in Panjim on Thursday protesting the failure of the Centre to honour its year-old written commitment to reemploy 17 lifeguards whose services were arbitrarily terminated by the Tourism Department contractor.The protestors had withdrawn their ‘strike notice’ dated November 3, 2014 based on the written commitment by the Union Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Labour. “In spite of continuous meetings held with Goa government, Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Labour, these 17 victimized lifesaving guards have not been re-employed,” All India Trade Union Congress (Goa) General Secretary Christopher Fonseca said.
The lifeguards are also demanding regularisation.
