Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Jan 3: Jal Shakti (PHE) Employees & Workers Association today held strong protest here and demanded regularization of daily rated workers, release of wages and implementation of Minimum Wages Act in J&K UT.
The employees and workers of the Jal Shakti department, assembled in the PHE complex Udhampur and started protest demonstration. A large number of workers from Udhampur Division, various Sub Divisions and Water Pumping Stations/ Filtrations Plants attended the meeting and protest. The workers strongly projected their issues and raised loud slogans against the higher authorities and the LG’s Administration.
District president, Jal Shakti (PHE) Employees and Workers Association and vice president Panthers Trade Union, Som Nath addressed the large gathering of protesting workers . The major issues of the workers pertain to regularisation of daily rated/ ITI/ CP/ land case workers and release of their pending wages. They said that wages of the daily wage workers be released every month on time.
While addressing large gathering of workers, Som Nath urged the Government to enact a concrete policy for the regularisation of daily wagers, release of the pending wages of daily rated/ consolidated/ land donor workers. Many workers have been engaged since 2000 and onwards but they are not regularized till date.
The Trade Union leader further demanded implementation of Minimum Wages Act in J&K, clearance of all the pending SRO-43 cases in PHE Department, conduct of DPC of all cadre in the department and filling up of all the vacant posts, remove shortage of staff at water/ pumping stations and Division and Sub Divisional level offices and initiate repair/ maintenance of duty/ staff rooms.
Som Nath appealed to PHE authorities to sort out the issues of the employees and workers immediately otherwise, employees are ready to chalk out strong action with regard to their genuine demands.
Others who spoke on the occasion included- Vijay Kumar, Suraj Parkash, Dinesh Kesar, Makhan Chand, Jagdish Mangotra, Krishan Chand, Karan Singh, Prem Nath, Ganesh Chand and others.
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