* Will resist unjustified decision: Rather
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 3: The J&K Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) has strongly reacted to the UT Government’s move of abolition of SRO-43 and called it unjustified and injustice with the Government employees of J&K.
In a press statement president EJAC Mohd Rafique Rather said that the news of abolition of SRO-43 has come as a shock to Government employees of J&K and described it arbitrary in nature.
“We receive an anti-employee dictate on day today basis which is putting us in more anxiety and frustration. Employee of J&K have been working in extremely adverse working conditions since long and now it was expected that Government will adopt pro-employee attitude to give them a sigh of relief but instead we are being intimidated, harassed and humiliated on one pretext or the other,” Rather regretted.
EJAC president said that there is a series of intimidating and arbitrary orders which have put Government employees in anxiety and frustration and latest one has added more to it. Rather said that police personnel and PDD employees besides other employee lose their lives on daily basis and their children are given a job under the said SRO. So that they don’t suffer on account of their livelihood and if this safeguard is abolished what will happen to such familes who loose their source of income in the line of duty. Rather asked, should their be no welfare safeguards associated with services, should the families of employees who die during their services suffer.
EJAC leader urged upon the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary to take a compassionate view of the SRO 43 and don’t accept or allow any change to the said SRO in the best interest of 4.5 lakh Government employees of Jammu and Kashmir. so that much needed employee welfare programmes remain intact, thereby nipping the anxieties of the employees and also amplifying the morale of the services.