Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 17: Peeved over the failure of the Finance Minister to address and redress the genuine grievances of the agitating contractual employees, while winding up the three days debate on budget in Legislative Assembly yesterday, JKNPP Chairman and former Minister, Harsh Dev Singh strongly condemned the highly apathetic approach of the Government towards the said categories of employees who were languishing on the roads in sun and rain.
“The Finance Minister announced yet another, additional doze of sops for legislators, but the highly qualified, technocrats and professionals engaged on contractual basis were again left in the lurch with none of the mandated leaders bothering to project their deplorable plight,” he said while addressing the gathering of NHM employees in Jammu today.
Referring to the hike in perks of legislators, announced by the Finance Minister, Harsh Dev said that rather than deliberating upon the genuine concerns of the aggrieved sections of employees in the Assembly, the elected representatives were conferring one monetary benefit after the other upon themselves. He said that the incumbent leaders had proved that they were working for their own loaves and fishes and had nothing to do with the common masses or the marginalized sections of society and employees.
Seeking resignation of the Health Minister for his insensitive approach towards the NHM employees and crippling medical services, the JKNPP chief regretted that the general public and employees were made to suffer and pay the price for the incompetence of Ministers in this ominous regime.
Urging upon the concerned Ministers to hold talks with all other protesting sections of contractual employees, including Contractual Lecturers, MG-NREGA employees besides Anganwari and ASHA workers, Singh sought the early announcement of a job policy and time bound regularization.
He further said that with female lecturers on 24×7 relay hunger strike, for more than eleven months, the concerned Minister had failed to even show up on protest site. Same was the case with Female Multipurpose Health Workers who had been even lathi- charged in Kathua recently while seeking release of pending wages. He assured the protesting employees that Panthers Party shall stand toe to toe and shoulder to shoulder with the aggrieved employees till all their demands were conceded.
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