Scribes stage protest over pending issues

Rajendranagar: Deploring the indifferent attitude of the Telangana government towards the scribes, the journalists fraternity of Rajendranagar held a dharna at RDO office to raise their issues pending since the formation of State.

Demanding fulfilment of promises made in the election manifesto, the protestors chanted slogans vociferously against the KCR government. Let alone proving the double bedroom houses, house sites and journalists' colonies, the government has failed even to provide healthcare facilities.

"Though the government issued health cards to the journalists, but they are barely accepted at any hospital in the State. Only two wellness centres at Himayatnagar and Vanasthalipuram are providing medical facility to the journalists' families but with limited medical apparatus and equipment," the leaders said.

"As far as the double bedroom houses or house sites are concerned, the entire process has been withheld after the TRS came to power. The only excuse the government took shelter by depriving scribes from providing house sites is that the matter was sub-judice at Supreme Court and it was trying to reach out to a logical conclusion.

The only thing we could emphasise is that we have been hoodwinked with the promises made by the government all these days," they bemoaned. The turn of events in the recent days portray a picture of hopeless situation wherein neither the MRO nor the RDO was available on the two separate occasions of protest.

Only a few days back, the journalists had held a sit in protest at MRO office where after two long hours of protest a subordinate officer appeared to accept the representation. Similarly, the Friday's protest received a same treatment where in the absence of RDO A Chandrakala, another subordinate officer received the letter of demands from the protesting scribes on behalf of the competent authority.

Union leaders, A Bheemiah, member, Journalists Anti-Assault Committee, president, Rajendranagar TUWJ, Satyam Goud, General Secretary, Suryanarayana, B Anjaiah, P Surya Kiran and several others took part in the protest.