{"id":147020,"date":"2021-01-06T00:53:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T19:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=147020"},"modified":"2021-01-06T00:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T19:23:55","slug":"atma-staffers-working-without-wages-for-11-months-stage-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/01\/06\/atma-staffers-working-without-wages-for-11-months-stage-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"ATMA staffers working without wages for 11 months stage protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, 5 Jan:<\/strong>\u00a0 Arunachal Pradesh Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Staff Association (APASA) staged a peaceful protest in front of the Directorate of Agriculture office here on Tuesday seeking wages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The employees said that they have not been paid for the last 11 months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A sizeable number of ATMA staffers were seen displaying placards demanding early release of their pending salaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The objective of our dharna is to receive our 11-month pending salaries. We had already approached the concerned authorities but it yielded no results. The issue of salaries kept pending has been recurring since 2012,&#8221; said APASA president Debia Taje.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have been left with no choice but to stage a dharna in front of the directorate office,&#8221; Taje added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agitated ATMA staffers also demanded a permanent solution to the irregular disbursement of staff honorarium and sought payment of 10 percent annual increment in emolument of functionaries as per ATMA Guidelines, 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the association called off the protest midway after assurances from the director of agriculture that their pending would be released within January this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter NAHARLAGUN, 5 Jan:\u00a0 Arunachal Pradesh Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Staff Association (APASA) staged a peaceful protest in front of the Directorate of Agriculture office here on Tuesday seeking wages. The employees said that they have not been paid for the last 11 months. A sizeable number of ATMA staffers were seen displaying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}