Casual, need based workers of PDD declare protest prog

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 11: Casual and Need Based Workers Union Jammu province today declared protest programme for next week, to expose Government  for denying them hard earned wages for the last several months.
Talking to media-persons today State president of the Union  Akhil Sharma, senior Trade Union leader Mohd Gafoor Dar (NTUF), Sanjeev Kumar- general secretary and others, said that casual labourers and need based workers have now decided to hold protests at Divisional (PDD) level and then at District and Divisional level in phased manner.  The purpose is to exert  pressure on the Government to release the pending wages of the casual labours and need based workers.
They pointed out that about 3405 casual  labourers and need based  workers are running the PDD infrastructure in Jammu region  and they are being denied their hard earned money. This is sheer exploitation of the workers at the hand of BJP-PDP Government. Their families are facing starvation.  Despite taking matter with the Chief Engineer concerned, Power Commissioner and even the  Dy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh ( Incharge Power Portfolio)   several times, nothing  except false assurances,  has been received till date.  The workers are being forced to intensify agitation and suspend power supplies by the Government, they added.
They further disclosed that in the first phase, the workers shall hold protest demonstration outside the offices of concerned Executive Engineers  in their respective Divisions / Districts  on April 16 and 17, 2018  and submit memoranda to the District Development Commissioners/ Executive Engineers for the Chief Minister. On April 19, the casual, need based workers from entire region/ province,  shall assemble at the office of Power Development  Commissioner at Janipur, Jammu  and held protest and day long dharna.    They appealed the PDD workers to participate actively in the protest programme and expose the Government for not paying hard earned wages of the poor PDD  workers.
Senior members- Ashish Verma, Gurmail Singh and Deepak  Sharma also spoke on the occasion.

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