AHMEDABAD: The issue of 'refusal' of LIC and Provident Fund authorities to relieve their employees for census work almost reached criminal proportions when Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) officials reached Ellisbridge police station to report the matter.
According to AMC sources, a team of AMC officials went to Ellisbridge police station after the employees from LIC delayed in joining the census work. On the issue, an Ellisbridge station official said, "AMC officials came to lodge an FIR against the employees refusing to report for the census work. Later, both the parties came to a truce and no complaint has been lodged." Recently, in an interim order, Justice KA Puj in the Gujarat High Court ruled that AMC's decision to deploy LIC employees for census work is not illegal. The court vacated the stay which allowed LIC workers to keep away from the census work. "The issue has been sorted out after having a long discussion with the concerned authorities.
More than 500 employees of LIC and PF have been asked by the AMC authorities to join the work," said deputy municipal commissioner and in charge of city census work, Arjav Shah. "More than 300 employees will now be part of the census work." added Shah. However, out of the allotted 339 LIC employees, only 200, out of the sanctioned 200 PF employees only 125, will join the work," a senior AMC official said, "The delay in joining has affected the census work. The work has to be completed before June 4." Earlier, the LIC employees had approached the high court against AMC for allotting them census exercise. Census-2011, is a comprehensive database of citizens. AMC authorities have divided the city in 10,977 blocks for the exercise. This is the 15th Census since 1872.
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