Agartala, January 18 (TIWN): Tripura Employees’ Co-ordination Committee held a meeting at TRTC Complex, Agartala. Secretary of Tripura Government Employees’ Federation, Samar Roy and other dignitaries were present at the meeting.

The leaders present in the meeting had decided to call off strike in the next coming days, despite that convention will be organized at both district and sub-divisional level. The committee also decided to hold a demonstration in front of Chief Minister’s house.

Delivering speech at the meeting, Mr. Roy told that, “State Govt for its ant employee policy is leading the state to its economical catastrophe. And the CPI (M) party which came to the lower in 1978 chiefly due to the cooperation and sacrifice of state govt employees, now actually depriving the govt employees and thus making the economy of the state almost crippled.”

While other leaders stressed at the point that, the  state govt failed to give salary to its employees as per the 6th Pay Commission simply because the 13thFinance Commission gave Rs 10500 crore less than what the state govt demanded .

But that was totally false. From the 13th Finance Commission state govt got only Rs 2112 crore less than what it demanded. But that too was purely due to the state govt's foolish strategy. State demanded Rs 2200 crore from the 13th Finance Commission to pay the arrears of state govt employees.