The Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee on Monday called off the general strike that it started 42 days ago demanding statehood for the Telangana region.
After holding several rounds of discussions with Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha and other senior officials at the state Secretariat, for several hours, the TE-JAC agreed to withdraw the strike.
The government in turn, has accepted 9 demands made by the employees.
The demands that were accepted include treating the strike period as paid leave and the release of pay for the strike period as salary advance.
The government has also agreed to withdraw the cases booked against the employees during the strike period.
However, a legal opinion would be taken before lifting the cases, depending upon their gravity - this could happen on a case-to-case basis.
The employees have also asked for the cancellation of GO 177, which enforces the "No Work No Pay" rule.
The JAC said that a delegation of employees should be taken to Delhi for a direct discussion with the Centre on the statehood issue.
The employees were also against the usage of Essential Services Maintenance Act in future.
Other demands included the implementation of GO 610 in all the departments, and the reinstatement of outsourcing employees who were not involved in any cases during the strike period.
The state government has agreed to consider accepting all the demands.
The government will constitute a committee headed by a retired High Court judge, to review the implementation of GO 610.
After arriving at a consensus on 9 primary demands at the discussions held at Secretariat, the Telangana Employees' JAC leaders went to the CM's Camp Office to finalise the talks with Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. (INN)