PATNA: Altogether 456 block development officers (BDO) of Rural Development Service cadre, who were on indefinite state-wide strike since February 1, known as it off on Thursday after receiving assurance that state govt would pay heed to their demands.
The strike was once known as below the ageis of Bihar Rural Development Service Association (BRDSA). An in-principle resolution to end strike was once taken on Wednesday night after Arvind Chaudhary, secretary of rural development division, during a dialogue, confident association that minister Shravan Kumar and chief secretary Deepak Kumar had agreed to look into their demands which incorporated upgrading grade pay and stating them of state cadre, offering bodyguard and making their carrier permanent.
Bihar has altogether 534 blocks of which 78 were being headed by means of officers promoted to rank of BDO. The strike had significantly crippled execution of a number of central and state run developmental initiatives as they were treated by means of BDOs.
Association’s president Prashant Kumar, in a press free up, mentioned they were confident that a committee headed development commissioner would glance into call for of stating them of state cadre in conjunction with upgrading their pay to Scale-9 (Rs 5400 grade pay) from Scale-7 (Rs 4600 grade pay).
Association’s media in-charge Rahul Kumar mentioned a delegation would meet chief secretary and home division further chief secretary Amir Subhani (further payment of normal management division) next week to talk about over all their demands.
“We all BDOs are technically still on probation with was once to end in 2015. Our carrier had no longer yet been made permanent by means of division even after recruitment in 2013. This has barred us from in quest of promotions and was once major explanation for resentment. We were confident that our carrier would be made permanent quickly,” he mentioned adding issue of offering one bodyguard to every BDO would also be taken-up during meeting with two senior officers scheduled next week.
Kumar mentioned more than 500 BDOs had joined carrier thru BPSC but a number of left in between and at this time 456 of them were left.
“Our coaching, which was once to end in a year after recruitment, persisted for more than 3 years,” he mentioned.
“Our division’s secretary additionally confident that we would be declared nodal officer for every block in order that CDPOs or other legit from different division, who are members of more than one block level committees headed by means of a BDO, don’t overrule course due to our present decrease grade pay,” he mentioned, adding, earlier committee members openly used to defy ordered citing causes that BDOs were working on decrease grade pay.
The strike was once known as below the ageis of Bihar Rural Development Service Association (BRDSA). An in-principle resolution to end strike was once taken on Wednesday night after Arvind Chaudhary, secretary of rural development division, during a dialogue, confident association that minister Shravan Kumar and chief secretary Deepak Kumar had agreed to look into their demands which incorporated upgrading grade pay and stating them of state cadre, offering bodyguard and making their carrier permanent.
Bihar has altogether 534 blocks of which 78 were being headed by means of officers promoted to rank of BDO. The strike had significantly crippled execution of a number of central and state run developmental initiatives as they were treated by means of BDOs.
Association’s president Prashant Kumar, in a press free up, mentioned they were confident that a committee headed development commissioner would glance into call for of stating them of state cadre in conjunction with upgrading their pay to Scale-9 (Rs 5400 grade pay) from Scale-7 (Rs 4600 grade pay).
Association’s media in-charge Rahul Kumar mentioned a delegation would meet chief secretary and home division further chief secretary Amir Subhani (further payment of normal management division) next week to talk about over all their demands.
“We all BDOs are technically still on probation with was once to end in 2015. Our carrier had no longer yet been made permanent by means of division even after recruitment in 2013. This has barred us from in quest of promotions and was once major explanation for resentment. We were confident that our carrier would be made permanent quickly,” he mentioned adding issue of offering one bodyguard to every BDO would also be taken-up during meeting with two senior officers scheduled next week.
Kumar mentioned more than 500 BDOs had joined carrier thru BPSC but a number of left in between and at this time 456 of them were left.
“Our coaching, which was once to end in a year after recruitment, persisted for more than 3 years,” he mentioned.
“Our division’s secretary additionally confident that we would be declared nodal officer for every block in order that CDPOs or other legit from different division, who are members of more than one block level committees headed by means of a BDO, don’t overrule course due to our present decrease grade pay,” he mentioned, adding, earlier committee members openly used to defy ordered citing causes that BDOs were working on decrease grade pay.
Bihar BDOs call off strike after govt assurance
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