QUETTA: Balochistan Employees and Workers Grand Alliance, an alliance of different employees’ Associations of the province, calls on authorities to accede to the demands of Balochistan Employees and Workers Grand Alliance. These views were expressed by the speakers while addressing the participants of protest sit-in staged on hockey chowk near red zone area of the provincial capital on Thursday.
Speakers demanded the merger of Balochistan Secretariat Services (BSS) and Balochistan Civil Service (BCS/EB) cadres into Provincial Management Services (PMS) cadre, fixation of 50 percent promotion quota for class four employees, possessing prescribed educational qualification, sanction 25 percent “Disparity Allowance” for the employees from grade-1 to grade-20, immediate withdrawal of notification whereby teachers of education department had been deprived of “Time Scale Promotion”, grant up-gradations to different caderies’s posts, restoration of deceased quota enabling sons of deceased employees seek employment in different provincial departments and subordinate offices, bringing “house rent allowance” of the employees serving in other district of the province at par with the House Rent allowance of the employees of Quetta, lifting ban imposed on trade Unions, grant “Risk Allowance “ for the employees of Health Department, issuance of “Health Cards” on the analogy of Corporations.
Protest sit-in was addressed by Haji Habib-ur-Rehman Mardanzai, President, Balochistan Employees and Workers Grand Alliance and others. Earlier, Balochistan Employees and Workers Grand Alliance took out rally to reach red zone, however, protesters were stopped by the police outside the office of Commissioner, Quetta Division. When protesters tried to move ahead, police used tear gas to disperse the protesters.