Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 29: The PDD Daily Wagers continued their protest dharna outside the office of Development Commissioner Power (DCP) at Janipur on the second consecutive day today.
The workers led by Bharat Singh, chairman of PDD Daily Wagers Union (Jammu province) started their `Kam Chhor Hartal’ on Monday ( Nov 28). Today was the second day of the strike and protest dharna. They again resumed their dharna at the Janipur office of the DCP. Many workers joined the protest programme.
The protesting workers were shouting slogans in support of their demand of regularization and enhancement of their wages besides clearance of all the pending wages. They were also demanding the release of their wages in time. They further demanded that discrimination with the daily wagers from Jammu region be stopped and they should be treated at par with those from Kashmir region.
While addressing gathering Bharat Singh said that concerned authorities have given only fake assurances but not even a single daily wager has been regularized. He said that the protest dharna and strike would be continued till their demands are addressed by the Government. Several other union leaders also addressed the gathering.
Later, Union members under the leadership of its president Surjeet Khajuria met the SE, EM&RE Circle Jammu Ashwani Gupta and apprised him of the hardships being faced by the workers. The Union members also requested the SE to convene the DPC for the promotion of permanent employees so as to allow regularised workers to work against those posts. The SE assured to take up the matter with the higher authorities.
Prominent among those who accompanied the delegation included Ashwani Mehra, Ajay Kumar, Parveen Sharma, Gurnam Slathia, Raj Kumar, Davinder Singh and Pardeep Jamwal.
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