Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, Aug 3: The ongoing protest demonstration of Class-IV hired contractual employees of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), Kakryal, today entered into 13th day.
The agitating employees raised slogans against the Vice Chancellor and authorities sitting at the helm of affairs of SMVDU.
The hired contractual employees are on agitational path for the last 13 days. They are demanding adequate compensation to family of their colleague Karnail Singh, who lost his life on campus on July 4. University authorities miserably failed in extending any relief to the family of deceased, who died on duty. There are around 250 Class IV employees who are working on hire basis under a contractor.
The employees when approached Vice Chancellor, he pleaded that employees working on hire basis were not responsibility of University and they should seek compensation from the contractor. On the other hand, contractor initially agreed to pay meager sum of Rs 75000 but later he also refused to lend the help.
Pertinently, in 2009, another employee namely Sanjay Kumar had also died on campus and his family never got any compensation.
Meanwhile, the reports fear apprehensions of clash between the agitators and the employees called from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board on arrangement basis.
The agitating employees are also demanding that hiring of staff through contractor should be stopped and University must engage the staff on direct basis as per the University norms.
Meanwhile, the leaders of Shrine Board Employees Union (SBEU) and Shiv Sena Hindustan (SSH) also visited the dharna site and extended their support to the agitating employees.
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