Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 16: Contractors of Estates Division who under the leadership of CAED president, Sanjay Soi, are sitting on protest dharna for last 35 days today reiterated their demand of early disbursement of their due bills pending with Estates Division Jammu as well as Treasury Officer, New Plot, Jammu.
Addressing the protesting contractors, Sanjay Soi said, “We have incurred crores of rupees on maintenance and upgradation of the bungalows and kothies of Ministers including Chief Minister besides Government quarters in various colonies but till now our pending dues have not been paid by the Government.”
He appealed the Government and the concerned higher authorities to immediately release the funds for clearance of their (contractors’) pending bills, which are running in crores failing which the association will adopt the path of agitation and the consequences thereof will be the responsibility of the authorities.
Among others sitting on the protest dharna were Mohinder Singh, Raja Mehmood Ahmad, Rajinder Kumar, Parveen Singh, Sukhbinder Singh, KD Singh, Arun Sharma and Sumit Sharma.
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