Nandankanan casual workers on indefinite cease work
Casual workers of Nandankanan Biological Park have launched an indefinite cease work agitation to demand regularization of jobs causing hardship to about 1200 zoo animals, official sources said.
By PTI |
BHUBANESWAR: Casual workers of Nandankanan Biological Park have launched an indefinite cease work agitation to demand regularization of jobs causing hardship to about 1200 zoo animals, official sources said.
Though zoo officials claimed that the strike had no major impact following alternative arrangements, the sources said several of the 1200 animals were reluctant to take food from unknown people and were facing considerable hardship.
About 35 trainees from the forest guard training school, forest department staff and volunteers from some ngos have been engaged by the zoo authorities in view of the agitation.
As a precautionary measure, additional police force was also deployed at the zoo, the sources said.
As many as 131 casual workers of the zoo have been on strike since yesterday to press for their demand of permanent and regular jobs, zoo director Ajit Patnaik said.
With alternative arrangements in place, the agitation would not have any major adverse impact on the animals, he said.
A proposal relating to the demand of the casual workers had been forwarded to the government for appropriate action and it was pending with them, he said.
Leaders of the striking workers said their remuneration of Rs 2100 per month was grossly inadequate and they must be made permanent employees.
Though zoo officials claimed that the strike had no major impact following alternative arrangements, the sources said several of the 1200 animals were reluctant to take food from unknown people and were facing considerable hardship.
About 35 trainees from the forest guard training school, forest department staff and volunteers from some ngos have been engaged by the zoo authorities in view of the agitation.
As a precautionary measure, additional police force was also deployed at the zoo, the sources said.
As many as 131 casual workers of the zoo have been on strike since yesterday to press for their demand of permanent and regular jobs, zoo director Ajit Patnaik said.
With alternative arrangements in place, the agitation would not have any major adverse impact on the animals, he said.
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A proposal relating to the demand of the casual workers had been forwarded to the government for appropriate action and it was pending with them, he said.
Leaders of the striking workers said their remuneration of Rs 2100 per month was grossly inadequate and they must be made permanent employees.
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