Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 25: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) has expressed serious concern over the continued agitation of the daily wagers, casual/ CP/ need based workers of PHE, Irrigation, Flood Control Department for the past one and half months due to failure of State Government to address their genuine demands, as a result the water supply system especially in rural areas has almost collapsed.
In a statement PCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma expressed deep concern over the attitude of the Govt towards the working and the labour class who are not being paid regular wages for the last several months besides failure of the authorities to come up with their regularization policies within the time frame given by the Government. He said that due to the long drawn agitation of the PHE workers of various category, the water supply system has almost collapsed especially in the rural areas of the Jammu region.
He said that the authority is maintaining water supply system in urban areas through permanent employees and tanker services etc but the PHE authorities have left the water supply system in the rural areas at the mercy of God without any alternate measures as a result the people are facing great hardships on account of drinking water facility.
PCC strongly criticized the attitude of neglect and indifferent towards the problems of basic necessity of the people owing to the failure of the Govt to settle the genuine issue of the agitating workers within reasonable time and the failure of the Govt to come out with the solution within the time schedule given to the agitating workers.
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