AGARTALA, May 23 (TIWN): Tripura Post Office staffs under 'Gramin Dak Sevaks' have gone in work strike for uncertain period of time demanding 7th Pay Commission.

The employees of the postal department have boycotted work in protest against the Centre for not implementing the seventh pay commission for extra departmental employees, who work in rural areas.

Known as Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS), there are about many employees here in Tripura.

Gramin Dak Sevaks or delivery agents are not direct employees of the department. They act as delivery agents recruited to deliver posts in rural post offices. They are also posted in positions such as branch post masters in rural post offices.

The seventh pay commission was implemented for postal department’s employees from 2016. However, it was not implemented for gramin Dak Sevaks.

The agitators said, “Though we staged several demonstrations seeking implementation of the seventh pay commission, the Centre has not heeded to our demands. So we resorted to the boycott for uncertain period of time”.