Port Blair, Dec. 9: A general body meeting of the Panchayat Secretaries working under the Department of RD, PRIs & ULBs was held recently at Port Blair and formed a Sub-Committee under the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The meeting discussed various long pending issues pertaining to Panchayat Secretaries mainly (i) On Up-gradation of Pay Scale (ii) Creation of Promotional Channel to the Cadre (iii) Necessary amendment in the Recruitment Rules for creation of promotional avenues (iv) Reservation in promotion to the post of BDO etc. The meeting started with a briefing by the General Secretary of the Association, Shri R.Rajendran on the activities of the Association and the recent struggles being carried out by the Central Government employees at National Level against the anti-employees’ policies.

The Asst. General Secretary, Shri S.L.Vinjit while welcoming the Panchayat Secretaries for joining the NGOs’ Association explained regarding the role of Association in govt. service and urged them to be united in the fight for their rights.

Shri EA. Johnson, Finance Secretary of the Association also attended the meeting. The meeting unanimously elected Shri Javed Hameed as Vice President, Shri Edmond Fernandez as Secretary and Shri Mohammed Hanif as Treasurer of the Sub-Committee along with other office bearers and executive members. Shri Vimal Kumar presided the meeting. Shri S.Pradeep, Ms. Shaiba Mohammed, Ms. Lata Rani Mazeumdar etc. also participated in the discussion.