Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 19: As a part of their two-day protest programme, Estates employees today held protest demonstration and sat on day-long dharna in front of the office of Executive Engineer Estates Division near Shakuntala crossing here on the second consecutive day.
The employees led by their leaders Prem Singh Bawa and Yash Pal Sharma, under the banner of J&K Coordination Committee of Estates Employees went on protest. They are demanding that their pending issues be resolved without any further delay. These leaders alleged that despite several representations, meetings with the senior officials of the department, employees’ demands were not addressed. They struck work and continued their day long dharna in the office complex near Shakuntala Chowk.
They are demanding early conduct of DPC, reorganisation of Estates Department, immediate transfer of a telephone operator deputed from other office, regularization of daily rated workers, release of wages of casual/ need base workers, provision of two and half day salary to the staff, issue appointment orders under SRO- 43, construction of building for the office of Dy Director Estates, change of recruitment rules and implementation of transfer policy and shifting of employees sitting at one post/ place for decades.
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