Tag: Esma

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has extended Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) prohibiting strikes by employees in power utilities and establishments including GRIDCO, OPTCL, OHPC, OPGC, NESCO, WESCO & SOUTHCO by another 6 months. Meanwhile, President of Odisha Power Employees Union, Dhulai Sahoo said that if the government doesn’t clear the pending salaries of the workers, […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Tuesday invoked the Essential Services (Maintenance) Act (ESMA) to deal with the strike called by transporters loaders and tippers under the banner of All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) on July 20. As per reports, the prohibitory order would remain in force for next six months. Transport associations cannot resort to […]

Sambalpur: Police resorted to lathicharge against 108 ambulance workers agitating in front of the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) office in Sambalpur demanding unconditional release of the 358 staff arrested under Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA). The agitating ambulance staff also reiterated their demand for removal of private agencies engaged in the operation of ambulance services. […]

Bhubaneswar/Sambalpur: Clamping down on the agitating 108 ambulance workers, police arrested over 300 staff engaged in the emergency medical services under the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) here late on Friday night. Earlier, the ambulance personnel were on a dharna in front of the revenue divisional commissioner (RDC) office in Sambalpur from December 20 demanding […]

Bhubaneswar: Putting emergency health services under severe strain, workers of 108 ambulance service staged a dharna near Lower PMG square here on Friday demanding fulfillment of their seven-point charter of demands. The demands include payment of minimum guaranteed wages, 15 per cent annual increment and construction of rest houses for the employees. “We are being […]

Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday again appealed to the agitating junior doctors in the state to end their strike, assuring them that her government would not invoke ESMA (Essential Services Maintenance Act) against them. She said the state government is working to find a “peaceful solution” to the problem, and that it is […]

Bhubaneswar: In the wake of an elevated oxygen demand due to rising COVID cases, Odisha government on Thursday enforced ESMA (Essential Services Maintenance Act) on the production, distribution and transportation…

Bhubaneswar: Demanding withdrawal of the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA), members of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on Wednesday staged a protest at the Master Canteen area in the Capital city. Police took hundreds of protestors near lower PMG while they were marching in a bid to gherao the State Legislative Assembly. Odisha Essential […]