Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Mar 2: After being denied their wages for the last over 58 months, a large number of PHE workers and their families have been left to face starvation by the State Administration.
A large number of PHE workers/ daily wagers from Udhampur district assembled at the PHE Complex Udhampur today under the banner of Water Works ( PHE) Employees Association and strongly condemned the attitude of the Government/ State Administration for not addressing their long pending issues.
While addressing the large meeting of workers, Som Nath, senior trade union leader alleged that despite representations to senior officers, bureaucrats and the Advisors besides ministers in the previous Government, the authorities failed to clear the wages of the workers, who are performing their duties at their respective water stations. They are facing worst kind of exploitation at the hands of the Government. No Human Rights body has even bothered to listen to the plight of these `bonded labourers’ in the J&K PHE department, Som Nath regretted.
He said these helpless workers are unable to feed their families. Unable to pay school fee, Some of their children have dropped. He said that concerned Advisor must take cognizance of the matter and clear the wages of the workers in phased manner, if not in one go.
Som Nath further demanded regularization of CP/ ITI and Land case workers of PHE, remove shortage of staff at water stations and other PHE offices, clear pending SRO-43 cases, conduct DPC at Divisional and Provincial level, change the designation of the employees as per their nature of work and also release wages of imprest workers engaged about 15 years ago. He appealed to the PHE employees and workers to remain united at the common platform for their cause.
Senior trade union leaders -Vijay Sharma, Suraj Parkash, Jagdish Mangotra, Dinesh Kesar, Makhan Chand, Vidya Ram, Charan Dass, Krishan Chand and others also spoke in the meeting.
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