THE Public Sector General Insurance (PSGI) employees intensified their struggle against Department of Financial Services (DFS) and GeneralInsurersPublic Sector Association of India (GIPSA) by observing half day‘Dharna’ followedbylunchhourdemonstrations in front of Regional Office of United India Insurance Co Ltd, Shankar Nagar on Wednesday. Similar demonstrationswereheldatall Regional Centres across the country. The aggrievedPSGI employeeswereagitating for theimplementation of their long-pending demands including the wagerevisiondue fromAugust 1, 2022, uniform 30% family pension,scrappingofNational Pension System (NPS) and demanding 1995 Pension Scheme forall, till thenincrease in employer’s contribution to 14% in NPS. The demonstration was organised under the banner ofJointForum ofTrade UnionsandAssociation(JFTU) in PSGI companies.

 

The employees also demanded strengthening of PSGIcompaniesbymergingin single entitylikeLIC, adequate recruitment in all cadres and improvements in non-core benefits. Nagpur Unit of JFTU organised the lunch hour demonstrations in front of RegionalOfficeofUnitedIndia Insurance Co Ltd, Shankar Nagar. Employees from nook and corner of the city and retired employees also participated in the demonstrations. The employees shouted slogans for their demands and condemnedDFS andGIPSAby shouting slogans during the demonstrations. Vinod Sakhare of All India General Insurance SC/ST Employees Parishad ( J), ShaileshBhure ofUnitedIndia Insurance Co Officers Association, Anil Sakharkar of General Insurance Backward Class Employees Welfare AssociationandPrashantDixit, General Secretary of General Insurance Employees’ Union Western Zone addressed the gathering. They informed that JFTU will hold sit in Dharna in frontof theRegional Incharges on November 11, followed by lunch hour demonstrations. After the meeting a memorandum addressed to the Chairman, GIPSA, was submitted throughChiefRegional Manager of United India Insurance Co Ltd, Shankar Nagar, Regional Office.