Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 25: At least a dozen workers of Public Health Engineering (PHE) were injured today after police used force to quell their protest, held to demand regularization of their jobs.
Hundreds of the workers of the department took to streets here at Lal Chowk and tried to march toward Civil Secretariat.
Police forces blocked their way but the agitating workers persisted to go forward. In the milieu, police used lathis on the workers and injured dozens of them.
A number of workers were also detained by the police.
The agitating workers have been demanding regularisation, saying they have been working in the department on meagre monthly remuneration.
The workers shouted slogans against the Government and said years of hard labour put in by them has been ignored by all the Governments.
Later, the workers sat on a dharna outside Kothibagh police station, demanding the police to release their co-workers.
On Friday, the workers entered the Civil Secretariat and held an anti-Government protest demonstration, demanding their regularization.
Our Jammu correspondent adds: PHE employees and workers under the banner of PHE Workers Welfare Association led by its president Th Bakshi Singh held strong protest demonstration against Government which has failed to regularize the PHE daily rated, need base and CP workers in a time bound frame.
Addressing the workers Th Bakshi Singh lashed out at State Government for its anti-working class stance. He declared that if the demands of the PHE workers will not be conceded the association would intensify agitation and start Kaam Chhorh Hartal. A large number of association leaders also addressed the demonstrators.
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