Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 25: PHE Workers Welfare Association under the leadership of Bakshi Singh, provincial president of the Association, organized a massive protest demonstration on the last leg of the agitation in the premises of Chief Engineer PHE Department at BC Road, here today.
A large number of employees participated in the demonstration and raised anti-administration and anti-Government slogans, which they alleged have miserably failed to regularize the services of daily rated, need basis and casual workers even after 19 years.
The demonstrators also projected the demands of provision of monthly wages at the rate of Rs 150 per day, clearance of pending wages of all sorts of workers, framing of new recruitment policy in the department, creation of higher scale posts in civil and mechanical wings and conduct of DPC against the vacant posts to help the cause of promotion of the deserving.
Meanwhile, the Association will observe 24 hours symbolic ‘Kaam Chhore Hartal’ on June 30, 2014 to force the State Government to redress all the demands of the employees without any further delay.
Subash Verma, Provincial general secretary of the Association warned the Government either to solve the long pending issues at an earliest or face the consequences.
He said the statements regarding regularization of daily rated workers issued by the concerned Minister and the Cabinet decision are self contradictory, as on the one hand the Minister says that the daily wagers will be regulized in three phases and on the other hand, the Cabinet seeks information only from the Departments and the policy is yet to be framed.
Bakshi Singh said that the employees have been forced to take the drastic step of ‘kaam chhore hartal’, despite knowing the fact the people will face severe problems.
Prominent among others who addressed the gathering included Rattan Doshi, Ajeet Singh, Ram Lal, Babu Singh, Surjeet Singh, Ramesh Chander, Sanjay Bali, Tilak Raj Sharma, Baldev Singh, Manzoor Ali, Varun Dogra, Ram Lubhaya, Chuni Lal, Ravi Kumar and Kulbhushan Nanda.
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