MZP wants 'no work no pay' policy

Aizawl, June 13(UNI) The Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), the state's largest students' body, today sent a strongly worded message to the Zoramthanga government demanding a 'no work no pay' policy to deal with agitating employees.

The state's largest students' organisation strongly criticised the frequent agitations of government employees, who receive the lion's share of the state budget, and the Mizoram government's compromising attitude towards agitating employees.

Once again, we requested the Mizoram government to employ a 'no work no pay' policy to deal with any agitating employees, and to take steps to the extent of termination against the agitating employee who defy warning, a statement of the MZP said.

Referring to the Zoramthanga's recent cabinet decision to meet the Group A officers' long-standing demand, the MZP further said, ''The MZP termed it (the Cabinet emergent meeting to appease the group A officers) as 'a total negligence of the poor', considering the fact that it (the government) had turned a deaf ear to the hundreds of farmers, who had expressed their anguish in the form of rally recently.

The MZP also advised the government to kick the habit of promising what it could not fulfill.

It may be noted that, the Mizoram Engineering Service Association and the Mizoram Government Doctors' Association had been disappointed by the Zoramthanga government's recent 'Group A-favoured' decision.

That the Mizoram government fulfilled only its agreement with the Group A officers while neglecting that of the engineers and the doctors had disappointed us, is likely to make the two important groups of employees to go on another mass-casual-leave agitation in the very near future.

Meanwhile, the Mizoram Electricity Technical Staff Association, had threatened to go on a mass-casual-leave agitation on June 28 and 29 unless the Mizoram government meets its demand before June 27.

These technical staff had been demanding implementation of the Pay Commission 2005, which they had been eagerly looking forward to solve their pay anomalies.

UNI