All the staff will walk in group from Khatla Assam Rifles gate while another group will walk from Tuikual bridge at 2100 hrs to cover the three-kilometre distance. They will leave office at 1600 hrs on foot again. They will shout slogans while walking and stage a demonstration at the secretariat premises.
''If there is no positive move from the government till the third day, October 7, the executive committee of Mizoram Civil Secretariat Employees Welfare Association will decide the next course of action,'' association general secretary K L Nikhuma said in a statement today.
When the civil secretariat was shifted to the New Secretariat Complex at Khatla, about three kilometres from the city, in 2008, the Chief Minister arranged private buses and transport department buses for more than 1000 staff and their clients. The commuters paid bus fares at same rates of city buses.
''The government's decision to suspend the bus services on grounds of financial constraints has come as a shock as it will cause a big problem to the staff and the office clients,'' the statement said.
The staff welfare association demanded the government to purchase staff buses for the secretariat, which it said would not be costlier than purchase and maintenance of a minister's official vehicle.
''Many directorates have their own buses. The civil secretariat needs at least four buses. This demand had never been made when the secretariat was located at Treasury Square, in the heart of the town,'' the communiqué said.
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