Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 29: National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) today urged Finance Minister, Haseeb Drabu to allot separate wage head for each department for regular disbursement of wages to 61,000 daily wagers and earmarked special funds for implementing the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission and announcement in this regard be made in the current year’s budget to be presented in the State Assembly, tomorrow.
Addressing a largely attended NMC workers meet here, Subhash Shastri, NMC president, pointed out that these daily wagers had not been paid their wages for the last 4-5 years causing lot of hardships to them.
“It is strange that the daily wagers were neither regularized by the previous regime nor paid their legitimate wages for years together,” said Shastri. This inhuman approach on the part of previous regime has been discriminatory towards the daily rated workers who have suffered a long, he added.
Appreciating the pro-working class approach of Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti and the Finance Minister, Shastri hoped that the long-pending demands of daily wagers would be met in the ensuing budget session.
He appealed Government to create separate wage head in the meantime, particularly in the PWD, PHE, PDD and Irrigation and Flood Control Department, for regular disbursal of wages to the daily wagers. “This interim measure will go a long way to redress their grievances in the first instance,” Shastri said.
He also urged him to release the pending installment of 6 percent DA in favour of employees and pensioners adding that it will help the employees and pensioners to address their financial hardships in view of escalating inflation and price index.
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