Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 22: The activists of J&K Casual Labourers Union (Jammu Province), held massive protest demonstration in support of their demands here today.
The casual labourers in large number, led by senior Trade Union leader Babu Hussain Malik, president Employees Joint Action Committee and Casual Labourers Union president, Ch Sampooran Singh and general secretary Mohd Shabir, assembled at Press Club near Dogra Chowk Jammu and held strong protest demonstration in the morning. They were shouting slogans in support of their demands and also against the J&K UT Administration.
The protest was held to express resentment over the attitude of neglect of the Government towards the poor section of the employees who are serving as casual labourers in the Power Development Department/ JPDCL, with their full dedication.
The protesting leaders were demanding to enter the record of remaining 870 Casual Labourers in the NIC portal of the PDD/ JPDCL and release the pending wages of the workers; also release pending wages of 99 Casual Labourers who are recorded/ exist in the NIC portal of this department; fix the seniority of all the TDL/ PDL and Casual Labourers of the JPDCL in the same pattern and release their all the pending dues and implement SRO-381 and SRO-64 by regularizing the services on permanent posts in the JPDCL, who have completed seven years of their respective services as Casual Labourers. The Union president gave 15 days ultimatum to the authorities for addressing their issue.
Several Union members who also address the gathering included Sher Singh, Sajjad Ahmed, Mohd Aslam, Mohd Saleem, Ramesh Singh, Sham Lal Sharma, Abdul Rashid, Balwant Raj, Bilal Malik, Sheesh Kumar Chanchal Singh Mohd Ashraf, Mohd Irfan and Durga Dass.
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