MALDA, Jan 18: Around 150 contractual field consultants working on a National Horticulture Mission project have not received their salaries for the past six months and their contracts are yet to be renewed.
Addressing a Press conference in Malda today, the secretary of the West Bengal Horticultural Employees Association, Mr Sanjoy Sengupta, said that they would submit a deputation to the state minister for horticulture and food processing industries on 21 January in Kolkata.
“If the minister does not give the employees written assurance of job renewal, we would begin a prolonged agitation demanding this renewal, along with the prompt disbursal of outstanding wages”, Mr Sengupta said. Mr Sengupta also mentioned that most of the contractual employees were highly qualified, and some are holders of PhDs. “The state government cannot mete out such humiliation to these highly educated persons”, Mr Sengupta said.
The association had met the state horticulture and food processing minister last November demanding that the salaries be paid, but no action has yet been taken.
n SNS
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