Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 28: Casual contractual workers of Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Jammu who are without salaries for last three months have sought the intervention of Union Minister in PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh in settling their issue.
In a plea to Union Minister, all casual contractual workers of DDK Jammu have said that they being the poor workers are facing many hardships in passing their days in these tough times due to non payment of wages for last three months and some of them are even at the verge of starvation. Besides, they can’t even meet the expenses of education of their children.
The workers also demanded enhancement of their wages as despite serving the Department for decades together they are paid a meager amount of Rs 1650 per assignment per worker and only seven assignments are assigned to a casual contractual worker per month. Moreover as some of them who have served for over two decades to the organization are have become over aged while others are at the verge of the same and hence don’t have any chance to seek fresh employment any where, the workers added.
They said that under such pattern, only Rs 11,550 is paid to each causal worker per month on the basis of seven assignments.
The workers said that with such a meager income they are unable to feed and support their families and are also unable to meet the expenses of the studies of their children and their day to day requirements. Besides, they are also unable to have proper treatment of their ailing and old aged parents, they added.
The workers said that Prasar Bharti DG Doordarshan, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi has slashed the budget to the tune of Rs 20 lakh which was meant for these workers leaving them high and dry.
Seeking the intervention of Union Minister, these workers appealed him to take up the issue with Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Government of India for regularization of their services in the Department with enhancement of wages and timely release of the same in future.
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