Excelsior Correspondent
RAMBAN, May 31: Scores of Contingent Paid Workers (CPWs), cooks and helpers under the banner of All J&K Contingent Paid and Cook Education Employees Union held a protest demonstration here.
They were demanding enhancement of wages as per Minimum Wages Act, regularization of services who have completed 10 years of their services and timely release of salaries in their accounts.
They said they have been assigned a very hard duty of cooking in Government schools against very meager wages which are not even 10th part of our hard work and we have been performing our duties more than decades on such pity meager wages. They added that they are not being given wages for the whole year.
They said that there is at least one cook working in every hamlet and the persons engaged as cooks are usually belonging to the poor families and many cooks are the sole earners of their families.
They appealed to the Lieutenant Governor’s administration to intervene in the matter so that they get justice.
They have threatened that if their genuine demands are not fulfilled soon they will launch an agitation.
Later, they submitted a memorandum to Chief Education Officer (CEO) Ramban for onward submission and dispersed peacefully.
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