As many as 3,500 Patwaris working under the Revenue Department decided to go on strike from today. The Revenue Patwar Union, Punjab president Nirmal Jit Singh Bajwa said that patwaris would hold protests outside district headquarters across the state on July 22. Upset at the indifferent attitude of the SAD-BJP government, patwaris had decided to launch the agitation. Their repeated representations and meetings with senior functionaries of the state government had failed to yield any results.
Bajwa said that the union held the last meeting with Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and Finance Commissioner, Revenue, in favour of its demands on March 14. He said Sukhbir had assured the delegation that their demands would be fulfilled.
The union demanded that patwaris should be given regular promotions. A patwari must be promoted to kanungo after 10 years, naib tehsildar after 20 years and tehsildar after 25 years.
Another demand is that allowances being extended to patwaris must be increased keeping in view the rising inflation. He said patwaris did not have any office and on top of that were offered a measly Rs 70 per month office allowance that must be raised to Rs 1,000.
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