Ambala: Government employees including power utilities employees from Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panchkula, Yamuna Nagar, Hisar, and Karnal held a meeting at New Anaj Mandi Ambala seeking the restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for all government employees on Sunday.
A large number of employees came from these districts and participated in the meeting in New Anaj Mandi.This comes a day after Centre approved the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS).
Vijender Dhariwal, state president said Pension Bahali Sangarsh Samiti (PBSS) demanded restoration of pension for 2 lakh government employees and social security for their families.
They are seeking an old pension scheme (OPS) and not a unified pension scheme (UPS) or a new pension scheme (NPS).
General Secretary Rishi Nain, Anoop Lather Sr. Vice President, and Swaraj Verma Mahila Wing In-charge said that the protest rallies are being held at all the district headquarters throughout Haryana.
The employees under the banner of PBSS also resolved to organize a huge state-level Tiranga rally in Hisar on September 1.
Ramesh Dhiman, President of Ambala district said all the employees of different departments participated in the meeting demanding the restoration of the old pension scheme.
Poonam Chahal, Kamal Deep Hussani, Baljit Beniwal, and Om Parkash said that all the elected representatives MLAs and MPs take one or more pensions as per their number of tenures, but the same pension is being denied to the employees who put in more than 25 to 30 years of services.
"If the government does not implement OPS in the future, then in the upcoming assembly elections, once again under Vote for OPS, the government employees will not take long to oust the current party from power. In case the government accepts our demand we will welcome the ruling party," said Baljit Beniwal from Hisar.