India, April 22 -- Government and semi-government employees in Maharashtra, including teachers, non-teaching staff and hospital employees, began an indefinite strike on April 21 on the issue of implementation of the Revised National Pension Scheme (RNPS) and other concerns. However, it failed to elicit much response-3,611 of the 7,678 Mantralaya employees remained present at work, while Class 1 and Class 2 employees across Maharashtra did not participate at all.

The state government threatened employees with a pay cut for participating in the strike but did not initiate any dialogue with the employees' union as the response to the strike was lukewarm.

The Coordination Committee for Government, Semi-Government, Teaching and Non-Teaching ...