Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 8: The PHE workers who were on ‘Kam Chhor Hartal’ up to Saturday, has exptended their on going strike for next 24 hours.
The PHE workers are on strike under the banner of PHE Employees United Front, Jammu province. They are on protest dharna in the office complex of Chief Engineer, PHE BC Road for the last three days. They are demanding release of their pending wages, regularization, conduct of DPC of all cadre, filling up of vacant posts, repair/ maintenance of pumping houses/ water stations and basic facilities at water stations for the staff.
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Later, while talking to media-persons at BC Road PHE Complex senior members of the Front said that work remained totally paralysed in all the PHE Divisions like PHE City-I, North, South, Rural Jammu, PHE Div Kathua, Samba, Akhnoor, Udhampur, Rajouri, Nowshera, Poonch, Doda, Ramban, Reasi, Dharmari Ground Water Drilling Division, Procurement and Kishtwar.
They said that Front leaders were invited by the Chief Engineer PHE Jammu for the negotiation but the Government has not responded properly. Therefore, they have decided to continue their agitation till the honourable negotiation and settlement of all the issues.
They also extended gratitude to the permanent employees of the PHE Department for their massive support to the on going Kam Chhor Hartal.
Prominent employees leaders/ trade unionists who addressed the agitating employees included – Bakshi Singh, Bhanu Partap Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Som Nath, Hoshiar Singh, Swarn Singh, Deepak Gupta, Mitual Sharma, Navdeep and V K Manhas.
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