Nambardars to agitate across state -Honorarium Hike Hangs in Balance

Disappointment prevails among over 33,000 Nambardars of the state as the government has not enhanced their monthly honorarium to Rs 1,000 per month from Rs 5,00 per month in the light of their long standing demand so far.


General secretary of the Punjab Nambardara Union Mohinder Singh Jahangir today said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had recently promised them to raise their monthly honorarium from Rs 500 to Rs 1,000, but a notification in this regard had not been issued so far for the reasons best known to the CM and the bureaucracy.

Jahangir said in the light of non-issuance of the notification, the state body of the union had been compelled to chalk out a state-level agitation programme for getting the notification issued soon. He said as per the agitation programme, district-level rallies and demonstrations through out the state would be held from August 5 to September 9 (see table).
He said after the rally and demonstration, the union would hand over a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner in every district to forward the same to the CM.
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