Government employees all India strike on Jan 8-9
Bengaluru, November 27: The national executive committee of the All Karnataka State Government Employees Federation has called for all India strike on January 8 and 9 seeking fulfillment of their various demands including cancellation of new pension policy and introduction of term pension scheme.
The resolution was taken at a two-day national executive committee meeting held at the Gandhi Bhavan for the last two days in the city. The committee urged both the central and state governments to cancel the existing pension scheme as it is detrimental to the future of the employees.
The employees have been giving 10 per cent of their salaries every month for the pension and the government is bearing the same amount. This fund is being given to private companies to invest it in various share markets through fund managers. So, the companies which get profit would give pension to the employees after 30-35 years. Now, the private companies have incurred loss and became bankrupt due to which, the employees have lost their pension, insurance and savings. So, the government should reintroduce the pension scheme for the benefit of the employees, it was demanded in the meeting.
Representatives from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states have participated in the meeting. Karnataka Federation vice president M Venkatesh, member Guruprasad Honnali, Secretary Shobha Lokanagh and others were participated, said Federation president Mahadevaiah Matapathi.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
