TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: Security workers recruited under the Goa Recruitment and Employees Society may go on strike again.
The workers say that despite assurances made by Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar in December, those whose services were terminated have not been reinstated, and some have not received salaries for the past three months.
“Meeting with society chairman Dr Shekar Salkar, at the Patto office, failed to resolve our grievances,” the security guards told the media. They stated that Dr Salkar has told them that it is not feasible to run the society, but promised that all of them would be absorbed into the Goa Human Resource Development Corporation, something that did not go down well with the guards.
The security guards are employed at various government establishments like the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Dental College, etc.
The security guards had resorted to a relay hunger strike for over seven days at the city’s Azad Maidan in December, demanding regularisation of their jobs, and absorption into government service. The government had promised them that they would be absorbed with age relaxation for the existing guards who are between 30 to 40 years of age. The government had even promised that they would relax educational qualification.
