Published on : 19 Nov 2025, 4:20 pm

Mangaldoi: The All Assam Panchayat and Rural Development (P&RD) Contractual Employees' Development Council, backed by the Darrang District Committee, undertook a two-day sit-in protest at the premises of the Darrang Zilla Parishad on Tuesday and Wednesday. The protesters pressed for a number of long-pending demands on pay and service security, besides policy reforms.

More than a hundred contractual employees held the protest, demanding a one-time salary hike with immediate effect to ensure at least Rs 30,000 per month. They urged “equal pay for equal work,” adding that the remuneration at present does not represent the workload they bear. A permanent annual salary increase of at least 10 per cent was also sought by the protestors to cope with th

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