Leaders of Andhra Pradesh JAC Amaravati staging a protest at the Collector's office in Vijayawada on Thursday.
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Employees, teachers and pensioners across Andhra Pradesh staged protests during the lunch break on Thursday as part of the ‘Demands Day’ agitation, seeking immediate resolution of their long-pending financial issues.The protests were organised at district and divisional offices and Heads of Department (HoD) offices across the State, following a call by the Andhra Pradesh JAC Amaravati State Committee.The APJAC Amaravati leaders urged the government to immediately hold talks with the employee unions and announce a clear, time-bound action plan to resolve the pending issues. They warned that if the government continued to delay action, employees would be compelled to intensify their agitation.APJAC Amaravati State Chairman Bopparaju Venkateswarlu and Secretary General Palisetti Damodara Rao said the response to the third day of the protest programme was encouraging.Large numbers of employees participated, raising slogans of “Pay our dues and provide us our rights.” The leaders said the issues were not new and had been pending for a considerable period. They maintained that employees were only seeking implementation of assurances given by the government before it came to power.The JAC leaders demanded that the government stop deferring Dearness Allowance (DA) arrears, financial benefits related to the Pay Revision Commission (PRC), pending bills running into thousands of crores, surrender leave payments, gratuity and leave encashment dues payable to retired and deceased employees, among other benefits.They alleged that many employees and pensioners had died without receiving financial benefits. In some cases, they claimed, the families of deceased pensioners could not even be traced, raising questions over who would ultimately receive the pending amounts. They pointed out that even funeral expenses payable to deceased employees were sometimes being met by senior officials from their own pockets.The leaders said employees had continued to cooperate with the government for the past two and a half years, despite not receiving several legally and legitimately due financial benefits.“The patience of the employees is wearing thin,” they said, questioning the argument that the State’s revenues would be insufficient if employee demands were met. Published - September 03, 2026 09:00 pm IST
