Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 25: PWD (R&B) casual laborers and need based workers have warned massive protest in case their regularization orders were not issued immediately.
The warning has been given in a meeting of these laborers here, today which was held under the chairmanship of its president Satish Sharma. The meeting was attended by need based and casual laborers from all districts and both regions of J&K UT.
They, while highlighting their problems said besides issuance of immediate regularization orders, their pending wages of last 34 months be also released immediately.
Addressing the meeting Satish Sharma said that in the month of December 2017, then BJP-PDP Government had created SRO 520 for the regularization of all the temporary employees working in various departments of the State by which a ray of hope was seen by them. Thereafter the need based employees who had completed the tenure of more than 10 years of service proceeded their cases and later a meeting was conducted in which the cases were processed, he added.
He said after that the files were sent to Commissioner Secretary, Public Works Department and then to Financial Department. In the Financial Department meeting some workers were regularized but rest were ignored, he added.
Sharma said that after the abrogation of Article 370 a new hope has emerged among the causal laborers and need based workers that they will definitely get the benefit of the same. But the State has been converted into UT for last three months but nothing was done for the casual workers, he added.
He said the files are presently lying with the Finance Department from last one and half year. He said number of times they met the Financial Commissioner for proceeding the files but till date nothing has been done in this regard. This has generated a lot of resentment among the workers who are left with no option but to launch massive agitation.
Sharma appealed Lt. Governor J&K G C Murmu seeking his immediate intervention in the case and justice to the hapless workers.
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