Patna: Nearly three lakh state government employees here today threatened to go on an indefinite strike from tomorrow seeking total implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.

"About three lakh state employees and teachers will strike work from tomorrow to protest the anti-worker policies of the government," Bihar State Non-gazetted Employees Federation (Gope faction) General Secretary Rambali Prasad Singh told PTI.

The workers announced their decision after talks failed with Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, who also holds the Finance portfolio.

Singh claimed apart from his organisation, state non-gazetted employees federation faction led by Manjul Kumar Das and the Bihar State Primary and Secondary Teachers United Front, a conglomerate of seven teachers organisations, would join the stir.

He said 32 representatives of these organisations participated in the discussions with Modi.

"The Deputy Chief Minister stuck to his contention that the state government was agreeable to implementation of notional pay in accordance with recommendations of the sixth Pay Commission from January 2006,but the actual benefits would begin to accrue to the state employees only after the recommendation of the pay committee constituted by the state government to look into the matter is received," Singh said.

"We have rejected the proposal," he said.

Principal Finance Secretary of the state government Navin Kumar said the government was taking suitable steps for pay revision for the state employees in consonance with the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.

"We are alive to the demands of the state employees. Still, if anybody goes on strike, they would not not be entitled to either the notional pay hike nor the revised pay in conformity with the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations," Kumar said.

"We will adhere to no work, no pay principle..... We will strictly enforce it," he asserted.

Source : PTI