The strong opposition from the employees and their unions have compelled the NDA government to back track from its proposals to increase the working hours and working days of central government employees in Delhi. At present it is 5 days week with 40 hours. The government proposed and in departments directions were issued to increase the working days with more hours and second saturday holiday. The employees, especially, women employees strongly protested as the two holidays in the week system, which helped them to attend the pending home chores, was being taken away.
The Secretary,Staff Side of the National Council, Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra, AIRF leader strongly objected to the new proposal and asserted that no decision could be taken in the matter with out consulting the staff side.
Realising the strong reaction, it is understood that the Government has back-tracked from the anti-worker proposal of increasing the working days.