Local employees body halts works

CHITWAN, June 23: Employees of local bodies in Chitwan district Sunday have halted all works of all the district-based local bodies. They halted the works pressing 15-point demand, including that temporary and contract-based employees should be made permanent and facilities provided by calculating their service period. [break]



All the activities of the local bodies including District Development Committee, Municipalities and VDCs have been obstructed after they started agitation piling pressure to fulfill the demand. The employees said they would also halt the works at the local bodies on Monday as well. Information Officer of the District Development Committee, Balram Luintel, said that the employees launched the agitation halting all works as their demands were not listened to even after they launched agitation time and again. Service recipients have been hit hard due to the agitation in the district. There are some 800 temporary and contract-based employees in government offices.

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