Members of the MES Employees Union stage a protest outside the Commander Works Engineers office in Bathinda on Friday. Tribune photo: Pawan sharma

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, July 8

The MES Employees Union today staged a dharna and demanded that they should be given pension according to the old scheme. They also demanded discontinuation of pension under the new scheme.The members of the union also said the contract system should be discontinued immediately in government offices. Their other demands include linking of the medical allowances with pay; Income tax rebate till Rs 5 lakh annual salaries; ceiling on bonus should be scrapped; job for a family member of the employee who died on duty.The rally was addressed by president J Singh, general secretary Darshan Singh Maur, Jagjit Singh, Gurnam Singh, Mohinder Pal Singh and Surjit Singh.