Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 2: Piece Workers & Contractors Association (PWCA) of Jammu & Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) Limited elected its office bearers as well as projected their burning demands in a general body meeting of all the piece workers and contractors of the Corporation.
The meeting elected Rakesh Jalali as president of the association, Sunil Sahib as general secretary and Mohinder Kohli as office secretary/treasurer. The newly elected body also comprises of three executive members– Rajesh Jain of M/s Jain Marbles, Rahil Malick (contractor) and Sumit Malhotra (local manufacturer).
During the 90-minutes long meeting, two important issues among the various issues were discussed threadbare. The first and main important issue, which figured in the discussion, was long pending liabilities of the piece workers/contractors which has accumulated in crores of rupees over a long period of past 4 to 5 years.
Rakesh Jalali appealed the J&K LG Manoj Sinha to kindly look into the matter personally as it is a subject matter of most paramount importance and any further delay into the matter would be more detrimental to the cause of JKPCC piece workers, contractors, specialised firms etc, who have already borrowed the huge finances from the various banking & non-banking institutions and in return paying the hefty sums in terms of bank interest.
He expressed his disappointment on a recent development wherein, the Corporation started inviting tenders from only PWD/CPWD and other Government card holders barring all the registered and existing piece workers of JKPCC who have been otherwise, the part and parcel of JKPCC for past 55 years. He made a humble plea to the LG to intervene into the matter and verify the facts, figures of this controversial verbal order.
General secretary of the Association stressed for the immediate need of the officials, who are sitting on the helm of affairs, to timely allocate the funds to all the respective units of JKPCC to take out from the morass all the affected contractors, piece workers and firms, who are at the verge of collapse.
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