Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Oct 3: A massive protest demonstration was held here by the PHE employees under the chairmanship of Som Nath, district INTUC president and senior vice president of PHE Employees Association Jammu province.
Employees drawn from all the remote areas of the district including Ramnagar, Dudu Basantgarh, Majalta, Mansar, Chenani, Kud, Patnitop, Sudhmahadev, Latti-Dhuna, Tikri, Katra, Panthal, Garhi, Rehmbal, Jib-Thati, Panchari, Bamhag, Khoon, Mansar and other far flung areas assembled in PHE Complex and participated in the participated half naked in the demonstration in support of their demands.
The strong gathering of employees had a round of Gole Market and then marched upto MH Morh where a strong demonstration was held. They demanded release of wages to PHE workers which have not been disbursed for the past 12 months to save them from starvation. Addressing the gathering Som Nath said the Government should have kept a provision in the budget for paying wages to the PHE employees and workers. He said it was the duty of the concerned Minister to arrange timely wages of the workers.
Other demands highlighted by the demonstrators included removal of shortage of staff to man the new water supply schemes for which crores of rupees are spent but no staff posted; Transfer of employees who have rendered three years services in other sub divisions in their respective sub divisions; Regularization of CP and ITI workers who have completed seven years of daily wage service under SRO 64; Change of designation as per nature of job; and Conduct of DPC meeting at divisional and provincial level; Conversion of Imprest and Estimate workers as daily wagers and release of 7 percent DA from July 2012.
Som Nath asked all Government employees to remain united for fulfillment of their various long pending demands and appealed the Government to avoid anti-employees policy as they were also human beings.
Others who spoke included Vijay Kumar, Rattan Singh, Suraj Parkash, Jagdish Magotra, Baldev Raj, Krishan Chand, Makhan Chand, Shiv Lal Sharma, Charan Dass, Arjun Singh, Chuni Lal, Kuldeep Singh, Raj Kumar, Govind Ram etc.
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