Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 23: Flaying the Government for its brazen disregard for the issues of agitating NHM employees, MG-NREGA workers and contractual lecturers besides others who were protesting on the streets for their most legitimate demands including job policy and regularization of services, Harsh Dev Singh, JKNPP chairman and former Minister today called upon the concerned authorities to summon their representatives for dialogue and to address their concerns with all sincerely so as to end the stalemate.
Dismayed over criminal apathy of the Government towards the protesting educated youth, Singh wondered that what kind of justice the alliance was doling to the youth where the anti-nationals were given compensation and employment while the educated youth were pushed towards starvation and other miseries. He regretted that rather than exploring ways and means for redressal of the genuine grievances of such employees, the concerned authorities had been resorting to threats and harassment thereby creating huge unrest and resentment amongst such highly qualified youth. He vociferously asserted that the educated youth with adequate qualifications deserved the Government jobs and suitable regularization policy which was the prime responsibility of a welfare State.
Decrying the payment of lesser wages to NHM, MG-NREGA, Education employees against their regular counterparts, Singh said that the Government policy was not only discriminatory but also violative of constitutional guarantees. He said that even the Supreme Court, in its latest judgement delivered last week, has observed that denying equal pay for equal work to temporary employees was oppressive, suppressive and coercive as it compelled involuntary subjugation.
He said that the Supreme Court had very categorically ruled that paying less wages to an employee as compared to a similarly situated constituted exploitative subjugation and hence violative of the fundamental guarantees enshrined in the Constitution.
Seeking early redressal of grievances of the said categories of employees, Singh made a fervent appeal to the Chief Minister to address the issue on priority as lakhs of family members were dependent upon such employees for sustenance and livelihood. He said that JKNPP shall stand toe to toe and shoulder to shoulder with NHM, MG-NREGA employees and contractual lecturers in the struggle for justice.
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