The All India Passport Employees Association and Chennai unit of All India Passport Officers Association will go on a two day strike from Wednesday in support of their charter of demands like filling up promotional posts, upgradation of pay scales of assistants and superintendents of passport organisation.

The association said they were forced to take this step as their earlier strikes on March 1 and 3 and working on Saturdays on March 5 and 12 had failed to draw the attention of the authorities concerned.

The demands include allowing passport kendras to function with passport offices for healthy competition, not allowing functional control of passport issue to be handed over to private hands in the interest of national security, filling up 539 promotional posts,sincerity in dealing with service matters and review of provision of direct entry to level of assistants.