All the vacant posts will be filled and the Old Pension Scheme will be launched again if the left alliance in power: Jiten Chowdhury

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, January 24, 2023

Old Pension Scheme will be launched again with filling up of all vacant posts in government offices if left coalition government of Congress and CPIM come to power in Tripura. CPM State Secretary Jiten Chowdhury is making this promise in his every election speech before the polls.

Jiten Chowdhury day before yesterday in Khairpur rally said that there is no dought that the Congress and CPIM alliance is coming to power this time. He said BJP-IPFT coalition government in the state came to power and launched a new Central Government pension scheme for teaching staff. This has led to dissatisfaction among the teaching staff of the state. Following the directives of the central government, the BJP government's new law in the state states that those who get government jobs after July 1, 2018 will no longer get pension.

This led to dissatisfaction among the government employees including the largscale teaching staff of the state. Jiten Chowdhury is promising in every speeches to win the hearts of teachers and employees in the face of upcoming assembly elections saying that

"If the left eft coalition government is formed in the state, the anti-employee interest laws introduced by the BJP government will end". And they will bring back the old pension scheme, he said. Along with this promise, Jitendra Chowdhury is also promising to fill every vacant post in the government offices and create new job opportunities for all the unemployed youths in government and private sectors and regularize the irregular government employees.

After this announcement of Shri Chowdhury, there is a huge enthusiasm among the government employees including teachers community of Tripura as this promises is to ensure their retirement future of the newly appointed government employees including teaching staff.