Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 27: Alleging harassment meted out to the youth in the sphere of employment by the State Government, NPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh sought release of long pending wages and regularization of services of daily and need based workers, Safai-Karamcharis and casual labourers, ReTs, contractual lecturers, SPOs, Anganwadi workers and other lower rung employees.
Talking to media-persons here today, Harsh dev lambasting the State Govt for its nonchalant attitude towards nearly 62000 DRW’s/ need based and casual workers, engaged in various departments including PDD, PWD, PHE, R&B, I&FC, Health & Medical Education, Tourism, Forest, Horticulture, Agriculture, TDAs, etc who were forced to work like bonded labourers without paying their meager wages for the last around two years.
He said that they had been languishing in open protesting for their genuine demands of regularization of services and release of long pending wages and regretted that BJP in particular being an alliance partner in the Government had forgotten its promises and failed to project the issues of daily wagers both inside and outside the Assembly. He lamented that while the families of such employees were pushed to starvation and other miseries, the power hungry BJP MLAs had doubled their salaries in one voice. He said that the seething anger among the daily wagers could soon explode like a catastrophe and take an ugly turn.
Drawing the attention of the State dispensation towards the miserable plight of teaching fraternity all across the State, Harsh Dev divulged that the salaries of RETs, teachers and masters engaged under SSA and RMSA remained unpaid for months together. He added that the master promotees (2014) of Jammu region were running from pillar to post for their adjustment.
Highlighting the grave concerns of SPO’s working in Police Department, Harsh Dev Singh revealed that as many as 25,000 SPOs across the State have been drawing a negligible honorarium till date despite the tall pronouncements made by the Ministry of Home Affairs, regarding the enhancement of their salaries under the Security Related Expenditure (SRE). Maintaining that several SPO’s have been rendering their services for more than 10-15 years in stringent and life threatening conditions, Singh vociferously advocated the enhancement of their salary to Rs 10,000 per month, besides regularization of their services.
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