Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Dec 4: Taking serious note of State Government’s anti-employee policies, the employees took out a protest rally in the town here today.
The employees from various Government Departments and Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), under the banner of State Government Employees Joint Action Committee, assembled near District Hospital Rajouri. Several employees’ leaders and senior trade union activists addressed the large gathering. The employees were raising slogans in support of their demands.
The speakers alleged that Government has back-tracked the principally agreed demands of employees. They said the Government was adopting anti-employee policies and causing unnecessary delay in addressing their pending issues. If the Government continued to pursue the same policy, the employees would launch Statewide agitation, they added.
The local trade unionists also appealed the employees to expose some self styled employees’ leaders who on the behest of Government were misusing their platform and working as Government agents to create confusion and disunity among the employees cadre. They said the employees’ agitation has suffered damage due to factionalism, disunity and vested interests of some opportunist leaders/agents. They demanded regularization of all type of daily rated workers, release of balance 6th Pay Commission arrears, restructuring of PSUs and provision of budgetary support, enhancement of retirement age, enhancement of Medical allowance and removal of pay anomalies.
Later, the employees took out protest rally which after passing through main bazaar culminated at DC office here. Prominent among those who addressed the rally included Subash Verma, Sushil Sudan, Swarn Singh, Suresh Sharma, K C Dubey, Rinku Gill, Suman Sharma, Farooq Mirza, Majeed Lone and Adrash Sharma.
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