Imphal, Oct 17: The all Manipur Forest Department Employees and Workers Union demand regularization of casual and muster roll workers in seniority bases.
Speaking to the media person president of the AMFDEWU N. Sotinkumar said that association had submitted a memorandum to chief minister, Minister of Forest Environment and Chief Secretary in connection with regularization of casual and muster roll workers. He further added that the union has been litigating for the last more than 20 years and they have been serving with the expectation that one day their services would be regularized. As result of that high court of Manipur gave a direction on 23rd of September to regularize the members of the petitioners union in seniority bases.
He further added that principal chief conservator of forest and cabinet decision to regularized 128 out of 268 casual and muster roll workers in seniority bases however the head of department has resorted to irregular, illegal methods and procedure against the courts direction for the regularization by imposing various conditions.
He demanded regularization to be done as according to seniority list, if the government fails to fulfill the demand within 20 days than the union will classify various agitation.