At Nagpur, the Public Sector General Insurance (PSGI) employees held a huge demonstration infront of Regional Office of National Insurance Company Limited, situated at Fidwi Tower, Mount Road, Sadar. The PSGI employees also staged a sit in Dharna at various centres and lunch hour demonstrations all over the country under the banner of Joint Forum of Trade Unions (JFTU).

 

The aggrieved employees staged Dharna and demonstrations demanding immediate notification of Wage Revision, increase in management’s contribution to National Pension System (NPS) to 14 per cent and uniform 30 percent family pension. General Insurers (Public Sector) Association of India, GIPSA, has already sent proposal to Department of Financial Services (DFS), and forwarded to Finance Minister. Arun Kulkarni of General Insurance Pensioners Association, said, “We are waiting for notification of wage revision, from a long time. If the notification is not issued immediately employees and retired employees will intensify their struggle.”

 

Prashant Dixit, General Secretary, General Insurance Employees’ Union, Western Zone (GIEU WZ), informed that if the Government does not implement their demands they will intensify their agitation. If the notification is not announced by January 8, the employees will go on one day nationwide strike on January 9. Praddep Dharamthok, President, GIEU WZ said that the Government was delaying the notification for no reason. Bhushan Deshmukh conducted the meeting. Large number of employees, retired employees and pensioners participated in the agitations.