Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Sept 2: The Water Works (PHE) Employees Association has stated that about 20,000 PHE workers were without wages for the past 18 months and demanded immediate clearance of their wages.
This demand was raised in a monthly meeting of executive committee of the association held under the chairmanship of Som Nath, vice president of Jammu provincial body.
Association appealed the Minister for PHE, I&FC, to concede the genuine demands of the PHE employees at an earliest and issue instructions to the subordinates to fulfill the demands of employees, which are in their competence, as most of the officers pass their tenure and do not take interest in getting fulfilled the demands of the workers and employees of the department.
The speakers held that there were no wages provided to the workers from the past 16 to 18 months who have reached to the stage of starvation, despite several announcements having been made to provide them timely wages.
Other demands highlighted in the meeting pertained to posting of new staff to man the new Water Supply Schemes on which crores of rupees have been expended but no operational staff appointed. They also demanded change of designation of employees as per the nature of job being done by them.
They also demanded holding of DPC, which has not been conducted for the past 15 years; Benefit of SRO 64; Conversion of CP workers as daily wagers; and a clear cut policy for the department.
The association also met the Superintending Engineer Hydraulic Circle Udhampur and projected the demands before him.
Others who addressed included Vijay Kumar, Rattan Singh, Subash Chander, Suraj Parkash, Baldev Raj, Makhan Chand, Jagdish Magotra, Dinesh Kesar, Rajinder Kumar, Mohinder Singh, Charan Singh, Janait Ali, Chuni Lall, Raj Kumar, Kuldeep Kumar, Manoj Kumar etc.
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