SHIMLA, Aug 23: A vertical split in the state NGOs Federation headed by Gopal Dass Verma seems to be on the cards.While meeting of the federal committee was convened by Verma at Hatkoti in Shimla today, a meeting of the parallel federal committee was held here at Panchayat Bhawan, which was attended by 107 delegates from the various departmental employees unions. A three-member coordination committee was set up in the meeting to be headed by Sita Ram Chandel of the state agriculture committee. This committee would work till the final election of the federation.
According to the press secretary of the newly-formed coordination committee Sita Ram Dhiman, four more members would be nominated to this committee.
Dhiman said the next meeting of the federal house would be held here on September 8, in which delegates from the block-level would also be invited to finalise the election schedule. The committee through a resolution, asked Gopal Dass Verma and general secretary M. R. Sangroli to resign as they had lost the confidence of the employees.
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