Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 17: Senior CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami today urged the Jammu and Kashmir Administration to resolve the issues of the striking PHE workers without any more delay.
The casual labourers and daily wage workers have been on strike in Jammu since February 7 demanding release of their pending wages, regularisation of jobs, filling up of vacant posts, repair and maintenance of faulty pumping houses and water stations and basic facilities at water stations for the staff among others.
Assuring full support to the agitators, Tarigami said, “I urge Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu to look into issues pertaining to regularisation and release of wages to daily rated workers because their strike has impacted utility services leading to drinking water crisis especially in most parts of Jammu and Srinagar cities,” CPI (M) leader added.
“The administration must talk to the representatives of the PHE workers and try to figure out a reasonable solution to their issues urgently,” Tarigami said, adding they have been working sincerely for the department for the past many years, but remained neglected.
Criticising the Administ-ration’s for its “lackadaisical” approach, Tarigami alleged that this was the reason for the present crisis as successive Governments always made deceptive commitments to buy time and avoid the crisis.
“It is apathetic on the part of the administration that instead of holding parleys with the workers on strike, it adopts coercive methods to avoid the crisis,” Tarigami said.
Ex-MLA said that any problem concerning employees of important departments which is kept unresolved badly affects the output and the performance of the Government. He said the Administration must understand the difficulties faced by these workers who have no money to pay their children’s school fees or to feed their families.
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