Summary Deputy PM assures APCA delegation to take up their demands with President and the Prime Minister.
LAHORE: Deputy Prime Minister Ch. Parvez Elahi has said that present Punjab government should accept the demands of provincial employees on priority basis.
He said this on Saturday while negotiating with the members of All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA), who staged protest against the Punjab government.
The Deputy PM assured the delegation that after talking with President Asif Ali Zardari and the Prime Minister, he would arrange a meeting of the APCA leaders from the four provinces with Federal Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and get their demands accepted.
Ch Parvez Elahi said, “We are doing our best with good intentions and fully realize the problems and grievances of the government employees, as the Chief Minister in 2007 he had got the scales upgraded of all clerks in the Punjab and increased their salaries by 100 per cent.”
He added that present Punjab Govt. should also accept the demands of provincial employees on priority basis.
The APCA demands are that the employees should be paid House Rent Allowance on the basis of 2013 pay scales instead of 2000, pay scales of the employees in grades 1 to 16 who were left out in 2007 should be upgraded and recommendations of former Governor State Bank Dr Ishrat Hussain should be fully implemented.
President APCA Punjab Haji Muhammad Irshad in his address said that they are grateful to Ch Parvez Elahi and Moonis Elahi for their assurance to get their demands accepted, we are sure that Ch Parvez Elahi will continue to support us and exert his influence for the acceptance of our demands in future as well as he has always been paying attention to our grievances and problems and got these solved supported us I all along in the past.
However, later, on assurance of PML-Q senior central leader and Deputy Prime Minister Ch. Parvez Elahi and MPA Moonis Elahi to get their genuine demands accepted, All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) members ended their sit-in outside their residence after three hours and dispersed peacefully after raising slogans in favour of two leaders.
