Electricity employees' protest deferred for 15 days following CPDL's agreement to most demands. Chandigarh 21 July ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : The union has deferred the protest scheduled for tomorrow, July 22, 2026, for the next 15 days after the CPDL management agreed to most of the demands and assured their implementation within a specific timeframe. During a two-and-a-half-hour meeting held today between CPDL and union office-bearers, assurances were given regarding employee promotions, absorbing contract workers onto the company rolls, implementing circulars for time-bound promotion scales and ACP, converting part-time staff to full-time roles, and providing uniforms, education allowances, safety equipment, and raincoats. Commitments were also made to implement revised DC rates, resolve issues related to APAR filing, provide risk duty and shift duty allowances along with electricity allowances to field staff, and immediately clear all outstanding employee dues. Following ...
Talk to students and farmers and resolve their grievances instead of trying to suppress them – Harsimrat K Badal to centre.
Talk to students and farmers and resolve their grievances instead of trying to suppress them – Harsimrat K Badal to centre.
(Says while reforms are needed in the education sector, farmers were apprehensive that the Indo-US trade deal on agriculture would harm their interests)
Chandigarh 21 July( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal today appealed to the central government to talk to both students as well as farmers who wanted to approach them for resolution of their grievances and asserted that using brutal methods to suppress their voice was not conducive to a democracy. The Bathinda MP, who was talking to newsmen outside parliament here, said “paper leaks and issues in our education system are real. The NEET paper leak, faulty on screen marking system of the CBSE and technical glitches in the conduct of JEE Mains examination – all need resolution. Parents are spending their entire life earnings on the education of their wards and if this system fails them it is a cause of concern”
Asserting that brutalities meted out to students marching to parliament to highlight their grievances were shocking, Harsimrat Badal said “they did not march to parliament with sticks. They are seeking much needed reforms in the education system. They also want compensation for those candidates who died tragically following the NEET paper leak. This is a genuine demand”. Stating that the centre should not be indifferent to the anguish of the protesting students, Badal said “the government should go in for a productive engagement with the students and allow them to raise all their issues”. Badal also condemned the manner in which barricades have been put up on the border with Haryana to deny Punjab farmers the right to march peacefully to the national capital to raise their voice against the Indo-US trade deal on agriculture. Asserting that she had been raising this issue in parliament during its last two sessions, the MP said “the centre is yet to disclose the details of the deal in parliament or to the people. All we have come to know about the deal is from the White House after the United States President announced that such an agreement had been signed between both the countries”.
Asserting that the agriculture sector was the backbone of the country, Mrs Badal said “farmers are apprehensive that the trade deal will result in the import of cheap agricultural products and dairy items into India. They feel that since the US farmers are heavily subsidized, even to the extent of 80 per cent, they will not be able to compete against them and will be at a severe disadvantage”. She said this could have a bearing on the agricultural economy, Badal said the centre should initiate talks with the farmers to remove all their grievances. “The country has learnt during the Kisan Andolan that raising barricades and stopping farmers at State borders is not the answer. Resolving their grievances is”.
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