AMEAK for appointment of nodal officer, redressal of other issues

Members of AMEAK addressing a press conference at Jammu on Tuesday. -Excelsior/Rakesh
Members of AMEAK addressing a press conference at Jammu on Tuesday. -Excelsior/Rakesh

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 11: All Migrant Employees Association Kashmir (AMEAK) has sought an appointment of nodal officer for PM package and non package migrant employees working in Valley so that various issues confronting these employees could get resolved in a time bound period.
The organization also highlighted some vital issues and demanded their immediate redressal.
Addressing a press conference, AMEAK President Rubon Saproo made an appeal to Lt Governor GC Murmu and Central Government for an appointment of gazetted cadre nodal officer not less than the rank of KAS for migrant employees posted in Valley so that employees could bring their greviances into the notice of officer and get them redressed without any lapse of time.
He said that migrant employees have to move from pillar to post for getting their issues redressed, adding that the appointment of the officer would provide a major relief to more than 4000 employees and to some extent end their anxiety.
He also demanded that the Government should adopt policy of flexibility in matters of transfers related to package and non package migrant employees after the State was granted a status of UT.
“We believe that the conditional bond attached to job package has lost its validity in the backdrop of formation of Union Territory of the State and thus it is now our legitimate right and also genuine demand to ask for transfers to anywhere in the UT”, he added.
Highlighting the issue of an accommodation, he stated that large proportion of migrant employees so far have not been provided transit accommodation and with the result the employees have hired rooms in some places in Valley which is unaffordable for them. It is compulsion of an employee to hire rooms in selected places because of their security concerns, he said and urged up on the authorities to provide accommodation to all migrant employees at par with secretariat employees till completion of transit accommodation.
Further, the members of an association asked the Government to initiate an inquiry regarding system of delaying tactics in releasing of timely salaries to package employees for last ten years.
The association raised the demand of declaration of two day holiday on Mahashivratri bearing in mind the importance of festival which lasts for a week. Besides it, they demanded a special leave of five days so that they can move to Jammu and other places to celebrate the festival with their families.
Among others present were Rakesh Pandita, Sunil Pandita, Ashwani Bamu, Abhinav Handoo, Ashwani Bhat, Sunil Koul, Sameer Bhat, Vimal Pandita, Sanjay Bhat and Rakesh Koul.