Incident Reports

Office locked up

2017-07-05

Gandaki, Tanahun, Byas

Technician at Road Division Office, Tanahun padlocked the road division chief's office after the chief decided to deploy staffers in the local levels without handing them contract letters on Tuesday. The engineers and sub-engineers had protested the decision and demanded contract letteres for the staff deployed at the local levels. Police said the office chief had decided to deploy 140 sub-engineers from across the country to different local levels.
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Gherau/Dharna (sit-in)/padlocking
Primary Cause Labor disputes, not including civil servants
Actor 1 - Number of people 140
Actor 1 - Affiliations Labor organization, trade unions and other organizations based on economic demands
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health)
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media

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