Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Feb 3: Jal Shakti (PHE) Employees & Workers Association, Udhampur president , Som Nath has alleged that J&K UT Government was deliberately delaying the genuine issues of the PHE daily wagers.
A meeting of the PHE Employees Workers Association was held at PHE Complex Udhampur today under the chairmanship of and senior Trade Union leader, Som Nath where in burning issues of the PHE daily wagers were discussed. Som Nath strongly criticized the attitude of UT Govt for deliberately delaying the genuine issues of daily wagers. He said the PHE United Front leaders met the Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha on 11-11-2020 at Raj Bhawan in presence of top BJP leaders. But even after more than two years, a single demand has not been settled till date.
The Trade Union leader alleged that it is shameful on the part of UT Govt that daily wage workers are on agitational path for the last 226 days but the higher authorities and the BJP ladders are unconcerned about it. The BJP has constituted a five-member committee for solving the issues of daily wagers but it seems totally eyewash. The pending wages of the daily wagers for 70 months is backlog of the BJP-PDP Coalition Government from 2014. The LG Administration is not taking the matter of daily wagers seriously.
He demanded a definite regularization policy of CP/ITI/land case workers, release pending wages of about 65-70 months of the daily rated workers, remove shortage of staff as against the work of 4-5 workers one person is performing duty, conduct DPC of all cadres in the department, repair/ construct duty/pump rooms for field staff and provide proper bathroom facility there.
Som Nath further demanded that employees working in snow bound areas of Udhampur should be issued warm uniform, charcoal, room heaters as per previous practice. He said old pension scheme should be implemented in favour of UT employees.
Senior members Vijay Sharma, Suraj Parkash, Dinesh Kesar, Makhan Chand, Jagdish Magotra, Javed, Krishan Chand, Karan Singh and others were also present on the occasion.
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