Wide publicity was given in the news papers in Southern parts of the Country that our Hon.ble Minister Shri.A.Raja announced in a meeting at Dindigul (Tamilnadu) that the indefinite strike conducted in the month of December 2000 will be treated as leave.
Sri.C.Kuppuswamy, M.P (DMK) from Tamilnadu has been urging the Dept. of Posts to settle this issue as per the Minister's announcement. It is felt that the Minister too would have told the Postal Department to treat the strike period as leave.
If the proposal is agreed by the department, then the issue has to go to Cabinet for approval through Dept. Personnel & Trg. and Finance Ministry since it was Cabinet's decision to treat the above period no work no pay.
It is reliably learnt that the proposal is yet to move onwards from our department.