Pay salaries, refund security money
Demand NGO staff in Lalmonirhat
Employees of Combine Development Sangstha (CDS), a local non-government organisation, yesterday formed a human chain, demanding payment of salaries and refund of their security money.
People from different walks of life took part in the human chain on the premises of the town's auditorium.
The agitating staffs said they paid Tk 20,000 to the NGO as refundable money during their recruitment in different positions in February this year.
“Before joining at CDS, we deposited the money with Lalmonirhat branch of Rupali Bank,” said a victim Abdul Barek. “We didn't get any salary as yet,” said another victim Mamunur Rashid.
The authorities recruited at least 40 people for the post of branch mangers and field supervisors.
According to the appointment letter, each branch manager was supposed to get Tk 10, 000 per month, while the monthly salary for the field supervisor was fixed at Tk 8, 000.
Contacted, Abdus Salam Azad, managing director of the CDS, said the job responsibility of the staffs was to sell solar power panels in the rural areas.
As per terms and conditions of their appointment, each of them must attain the sale target of Tk 2 lakh in a month, he added. “As they failed to fulfil the target, we could not pay their salaries,” he added.
Regarding the security money, Salam said it would be refunded soon.
“Our salaries should not be dependent on the sale target as we were not recruited as sales representatives, said one of the agitators Nitish Chandro.
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