Employees bodies resolve to form united platform

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 1:  Various employees organizations/ unions have unanimously  resolved to frame a united and common platform to project their issues before the Government.
A joint extraordinary meeting  of various organizations, federation, associations and union including J&K National Trade Union Front headed by  Mohd Gafoor Dar, J&K Govt Employees and workers Federation led by  S Kulwant Sngh, United School Teachers associations headed by Hari Singh, PHE Water Workers employees Association/ INTUC chief  headed by Shiv Kumar Sharma, All Clerical Cadre Employees Association  led by Babu Hussain Malik, JK Lib Employees Association headed by Shahid Hussain, J&K ITI employees united front  led by Nazir Ahmed, JDA Employees  and Worker Union led by Rajinder Kumar, J&k Handicrafts Employee Association headed by Subash Chander, JK Legal Metrology Employees Associations led by Suresh Kumar, J&K Cultural Academy Employees Association  headed by Romesh Singh,  J&K Social Forestry Employees Union headed by Raj Singh,  JK RET Teachers Associations led by Manohar Lal, JK Accounts Employees Association led by KS Samyal, J&K  Sports Council  Employees Associations headed by S Vikramjeet Singh, J&K Govt School Education Officers Association headed by Paramjit Singh and  Public Sector Employees Associations headed by  Pritam Singh was held at Jammu here today.
The agenda of the meeting was to form a united platform of various existing trade unions to achieve  the common cause i.e.  implementation of the 7th Pay Commission at par  with Central Govt employees, regularization  policy of all need base, casual labours employees, regularization  policy for  all need base, casual labours  of various departments engaged after 1994 and creartion of their   wages ahead.
The meeting discussed and deliberated all the  pros and cons of framing a united platform and unanimously decided that a united platform is the need of the day  without that we cannot achieve  the common goal. The leaders participating the meeting adopted  a resolution  appearing  to all those trade union  colleagues, who could not attend the meeting to participate the nest meeting of united platform  in the month of October where the next course of action will be decided.
Other leaders  who participated in  the meeting included Ranjit Singh, Lekh Raj Khajuria, Aslam Khan, Karan Singh, Piran Ditta, Balbir  Singh, Kulesh Kumar, Parvez Ahmed, Kuldeep Jamwal,  Barkat Ali, Hurdat Sharma,  Himat Rai and others.