Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 15: The helpers to supervisors of the ICDS department today protested against the non-payment of their wages for the last 4 years while seeking the immediate restoration of their services following disengagement orders.
Scores of these workers assembled here at Partap Park, Press Enclave, and were seen raising slogans in favour of their demands, urging the LG-led administration to address their issues without any further delay.
General Secretary of J&K Helpers to Supervisors Association, ICDS department said that their wages have not been released for the last 4 years due to which they are suffering.
“We seek that we should be shifted back to our earlier posts and at the same time, the pending wages that have not been released to us for the last 4 years, should be released,” she said.
The protestors said that the matter concerning their disengagement is in the court, “and the department has been directed to respond on the matter of what has actually happened, and why have they been disengaged,” the protestors said.
They said that the court has also directed the concerned department to reengage them in accordance with our earlier postings, with a special focus on the release of our wages
“However, the officers are not adhering to the directives and have so far failed in implementing the orders that have been issued in this regard,” the protestors said.
They said with the matter of non-compliance, in this regard, they are going to file a contempt petition and said that the department will responsible for the consequences after that.
“Our issue has been lingering for last several years and the department has not been taking measures to address our issues,” they said.
The protestors said that if the department is advertising the new posts, then the workers who are around 350 in number should be accommodated in that.
“If the Government sanctions these posts on which we were holding, then that would be better along with the release of our pending wages,” the protestors said, adding that they along with their families are facing immense difficulties.
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