Imphal, January 29 2009: AROUND 1500 regular employees of the state IFCD has set deadline on February 10 to the state authority to clear their seven month pending salaries while threatening that they will go to court if authority fail to meet their demand within the set deadline.

Speaking at a press conference at IFCD head office today, chairman of the Irrigation and Flood Control Department Employees Association Adhoc Joint Action Committee, Ch Gunindro said the salaries of the employees are pending since July last year.

Due to the non-clearance of the same, employees are facing financial problems as they have no other income earning sources.

The employees are suffering while maintaining their family's expenditures and other related with children education, he said.

He further said that the employees of the 14 offices of the department right from the chief engineer office, seven circle offices, and two offices of additional chief engineer have not be getting since July last year.

Elaborately speaking, Gunindro said the department submitted an estimated budget of Rs 20455.85 lakhs including Rs 990 lakhs as provision for salaries of the employees in 2007 November for the fiscal year 2008-09 .

But the state planning department approved at Rs 18758 lakhs.

The reduction in the fund in the budget estimate is behind the non-clearance of the salaries of the employees, he observed while demanding the state government to add the shortage funds to the revised estimate of the budget.

He also said that regarding the non-payment of the salaries of the employees, they had put up to the knowledge of the IFCD minister, N Biren in the recent time but no apparent action taken up so far.

If the authorities ensure clearance of the pending salaries by February 10, then they will go to the court for justice, he added.

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