All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) has announced the protest movement at non response from the government on their 12 point charter of demand
Rawalpindi (Pakistan Point News / Online - 20th April, 2019) All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) has announced the protest movement at non response from the government on their 12 point charter of demand.The APCA's leaders Chaudhary Mubashar Ahmed , Shahzad Kiyani, Raja Aftab , Chaudhary Ajmal and Raja Shahaid said this while speaking a meeting here on Saturday. They said that in first phase APCA would block Murree Road on 24th April against price hike and not increasing the salary of government servants.
"When we demand raise of pay and allowance , we are told that there is no money in the national exchequer , but on the other hand the government enhance the salary of parliamentarians manifolds. We condemn this double standard of the rulers ", the leaders added.They demanded that their entire charter of demand may be approved and the raise of salary should be given to government employees with the same ratio that was granted to the members of the parliament .
They also demanded to give utility allowance to all government servants on the pattern of employees working in secretariat .They said that in the past every government tried to snatch the loaf of bread from the mouth of government servants, which is par with the financial murder of their children.They said that due to continuous devaluation of Pakistani Currency , swelling the price of petroleum products and increasing the tariff of energy has pushed the labour and salaried class to extreme destitute and they cannot even get good healthcare facilities and better education for their children.
They said that the stoves in the houses of the government servants working in grade 1 to BPS-17 have been made colder.They threatened the government that if their demands would not be fulfilled then APCA would be forced to protest and lockdown the government offices throughout the country.
