Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 20: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) today sought regularization of all those workers who had completed seven years of service, as repeatedly assured by the Government.
Demanding the rollback of controversial Government Order No 384 GAD of 2015 relating to termination of casual, need based and other contingent workers, JKNPP chairman, Harshdev Singh said that the incumbent employees proposed to be dis-engaged have been performing their duties for the last 10-20 yrs on meager wages and their termination would tell severely upon their very existence.
Reprehending the coalition Government for issuing their termination order, Singh said that the move was aimed simply at ousting the employees engaged by previous Government so as to make room for engagement of the political workers of the present coalition Government.
He was addressing a gathering of over 200 daily wage workers that were holding demonstration and sitting on dharna in front of Lok Nirman Bhawan here in support of their demands.
Balwant Singh Mankotia, State president, JKNPP, while seeking the roll back of the termination order regretted that rather than regularizing the casual workers, they were being thrown out which was worst kind of exploitation. He said that if the Government had any objection to the mode of their engagement, the remedy didn’t lie in their ouster as the same would endanger their very subsistence leading their families to starvation.
Yash Paul Kundal, State president, Young Panthers, while supporting the cause of daily wagers sought their time bound regularization. He further called upon the State Government to release the unpaid wages of thousands of daily rated and casual workers of various Government departments who had been deprived of the same for the last several months.
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