HYDERABAD: The Telangana Sakala Janula Samme is going to begin in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) from Tuesday. For a start, all the administration wings at its head-office and 18 circles would be locked and all the employees would participate in the indefinte strike.
Office-bearers of the employees and members of the Telangana Joint Action Committee, GHMC, on Monday warned the State Government against invoking the Essential Service Maintenance Services Act (ESMA), saying that in such a case, they wouldn’t hesitate to stop essential municipal services like street-lighting, lifting of garbage and sweeping of roads.
They also threatened to boycott duties like collection of property tax, issuance of birth and death certificates and building permission approvals among others.
Members of the Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh and other unions staged a maha dharna at the head-office and raised slogans against the central and state governments for the “deliberate delay” in carving out a separate Telangana State. A number of people, who came to the head-office to meet officials for settlement of their grievances, were not allowed inside by the police.
Meanwhile, the Telangana electricity employees’ joint action committee said it will announce its “direct action plan” at a meeting on Tuesday. The meeting will be addressed TJAC convenor Prof Kodandaram and TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao.