Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 2: The employees and daily rated workers of Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC) held strong protest demonstration at their Jammu and Srinagar offices and demanded release of their four (4) months salary.
The JKPCC employees under the banner of JKPCC Workers’ Association assembled in the office complex of JKPCC near Panama Chowk, Rail Head Complex, Jammu and started protest demonstration. They were raising loud slogans against the management of JKPCC and also in support of their demand of releasing their four months’ salary.
The employees alleged that they are protesting for the last 4-5 days but the concerned Managing Director and other higher officials are least bothered about the release of salary of the employees. They said that due to non-release of salaries their families were facing starvation. They are unable to pay school fee of their children and even facing hardships to procure medicines of their daily need.
They pointed out that there are about 700 permanent and 1194 daily wage workers in JKPCC. The MD and other senior officers paid the bills of the contractors and even exhausted the salary budget of the employees. Now, they are claiming that there is financial crunch while the fact is that there is financial mismanagement in the Corporation. This so called financial crunch has been self created by the people at the helm of affairs. They also demanded increase in the wages of the daily rated workers as per UT / Central Govt norms. They said that their protest will continue till their wages are cleared.
Similar protest was held at Srinagar office of JKPCC at Haftchinar. The employees and workers were demanding release of their salary of four months.
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