MEPMA resource persons submit plea on pending grievances in Vizag

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Members of the AP MEPMA RP Employees' Union gathered astatine  the UCDPD bureau   successful  Visakhapatnam connected  Monday.

Members of the AP MEPMA RP Employees' Union gathered astatine the UCDPD bureau successful Visakhapatnam connected Monday. | Photo Credit: V. RAJU

Members of the Andhra Pradesh Mission for Elimination of Poverty successful Municipal Areas (MEPMA), Resource Persons Employees’ Union held a objection successful Visakhapatnam connected Monday, marching from the GVMC Gandhi Statue to the bureau of the Urban Community Development Project Director (UCDPD), wherever they submitted a corporate practice missive listing a bid of long-pending grievances.

The employees, who enactment arsenic Resource Persons organising Development of Women and Children successful Rural Areas (DWCRA) self-help groups nether the MEPMA, said their monthly salaries had not been paid for 3 months and demanded that the arrears beryllium cleared without deductions. They besides urged that the minimum wage beryllium revised to ₹26,000 per month, describing it arsenic an all-India demand.

P. Mani, president of the union’s Visakha District Committee, said the abrupt removal of the online updating enactment from the app utilized to grounds DWCRA radical meetings had enactment the May wage of Resource Persons successful jeopardy.

The employees flagged the mounting workload from the ongoing Census, Swachha Survekshan, Mobile Bookkeeping, Micro Credit Plan, and Employees' Upgradation Plan, alongside their regular duties. “RPs should not beryllium burdened with specified a workload wherever their wage is spent connected aesculapian bills,” she said.

The national demanded contiguous restoration of login entree for Resource Persons whose credentials had been suspended, stating this was affecting their quality to enactment and, consequently, their salaries.

During teleconferences, employees noted that sessions presently moving from 7 a.m. to 12 noon were consuming premier fieldwork hours. “After these lengthy teleconferences, we are near with nary artillery successful the mobile to proceed doing our work, particularly the census,” said P. Mani.

The national demanded that teleconferences beryllium shortened and rescheduled betwixt 12 noon and 4 p.m.

Published - May 25, 2026 07:56 p.m. IST

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