Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 16: Apni Trade Union (ATU) today urged the Government to extend usual compensation as well as provide one job per family to those whose lone bread earners (Government employees) have succumbed to COVID-19.
State president of ATU Ajaz Kazmi in a statement issued today said along with disbursal of welfare fund, Government should also dole out usual compensation in favour of the families of the employees lost the battle of their lives due to this COVID-19 virus and left their families in distress and pain.
Kazmi said the ‘Next of Kin’ of employees of PDD or other departments who lost their lives during this COVID pandemic while performing their assigned duties be also given compensation and provided with usual jobs to eke out their livelihood.
He also demanded that the employees of all such departments like doctors, paramedical staff, Municipal corporations, PHE, PDD etc including daily wagers who are performing essential duties during this tough time braving all the dangers to their lives as well as to their families, be declared as Corona Warriors and duly rewarded.
Kazmi further expressed that journalists who are fighting insurgency and working under testing times for more than three decades should also be declared frontline warriors as they are doing a commendable job during all the times including time of COVID-19.
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