Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Nov 21: Agitated over the exploitation of unemployed and under-employed youth in J&K, the NPP activists led by party chairman Harshdev Singh staged a protest demonstration, seeking enhancement of wages and regularization of their services, at Jantar Mantar in Delhi here today.
Alleging the State Government’s failure to address the grievances of the suffering youth in the State , Harshdev projected the miserable plight of over 62,000 DRW’s and casual workers engaged in PHE, PWD, M&RE, I&FC, Tourism, Health, Agriculture, Forest and other Departments. He pointed out that these workers had been languishing in the open for several months, demanding release of long- pending wages for more than two years, enhancement of salaries and regularization of their services but the State Government had paid no heed to their sufferings.
He alleged that the prevalent unemployment and neglect or temporary workers was the root cause of the resentment among the youth who were pushed towards starvation and many a times baton charged by the police. The NRHM/ Asha workers, Safai Karamcharis, Anganwari workers were also facing the wrath of Govt’s apathy.
Citing the exploitation of educated youth of the State as worst form of human rights violation, the NPP leader said that the highly qualified educated unemployed youth in the State were treated like mere expendables. He added that seething anger among the youth could explode any moment like a catastrophe and cause irreparable damages. He maintained that the College, School and Polytechnic lecturers engaged on contract / academic arrangement basis and who included PhDs, M Phils, double post graduates etc were being paid Rs 7,000 per month in Higher Secondary Schools and Polytechnics where as Rs 8,000 in colleges which had not been revised for the last more than 12 years. They were oppressed like bonded labourers whose honorarium was grossly meagre in proportion to the quantum of work assigned to them.
Referring to the seething anger of the people and youth in particular, senior NPP leader Yashpal Kundal revealed that the people in Jammu were hooting at the Saffron leaders during their visits including the Union MoS, Dr Jitendra Singh of late to lodge protest against BJP’s false promises . He said that the people were feeling cheated and betrayed by the BJP.
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