Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, July 16: Senior vice president of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress and former Member of Parliament, Janak Raj Gupta along several party leaders and workers held a meeting with protesting sanitation workers at Udhampur and assured to take up their genuine issues with the higher authorities concerned for their early redress.
During the meeting the daily wagers and casual civic workers rued official antipathy claiming that they had been working full-time for the past 10-15 years on meagre wages.
“Due to temporary nature of their jobs, they couldn’t get any benefits such as loans or other benefits availed by permanent staff,” the workers regretted, adding, “several representations have been made for regularization of jobs to authorities but to no avail.”
Pertinently, Safai Karamcharies Union Udhampur has been observing tool-down strike besides holding a dharna in favour of their various demands.
According to a statement issued here today, Gupta along with other leaders after interacting with the protesting Safai Karamcharies spoke to the Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora and Director local bodies over telephone and sought early redress of their genuine demands including regularization of civic workers against the permanent posts, benefits of sixth pay commission, selection and issuance of appointment order on merit basis and availability of vacant posts.
The Minister and the Director listened the demands patiently and agreed to concede.
President All India Masih Seva Dal, Camres David also addressed the protesting workers.
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