Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 20: While the ministers and MLAs doubled their salaries and perks besides all other allowances, the lower rung employees of the State were forced to protest even for the release of their hard earned wages/ salaries which were kept pending by the Govt for months and years.
In a press statement here, NPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh regretted that while the ministers and ruling party leaders played ducks and drakes with tax payers’ money, the lesser employees including DRWs, need based workers and casual labourers working in various Government departments, Female Multi-Purpose Health Workers, NRHM employees, Anganwadi workers, Asha workers, MG-NREGA employees, ReTs, contractual lecturers, SSA teachers, Polytechnic technocrats, wireless operators etc were made to languish under open skies in sun and rain holding protests and hunger strikes for the redressal of their most genuine grievances.
He said the State witnessed the most chaotic situation in the history with almost all the low paid categories of employees taking to roads alleging their forced starvation at the hands of a highly apathetic Government.
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Lambasting the State Government for its callous attitude towards nearly 62000 DRW’s, need based workers and casual labourers working in various departments viz-a viz PDD, PWD, PHE, R&B, I&FC, Health & Medical Education, Forest, Horticulture, Agriculture, TDAs, Social Welfare who were forced to work like bonded labourers without paying their meager wages for more than two years. He said that they had been languishing in open protesting for their genuine demands of regularization of services and release of long pending wages but regretted that BJP in particular being an alliance partner in the Government had forgotten its promises and failed to project the issues of Daily Wagers inside the Assembly.
Deploring the miserable plight of the FMPHWs who were observing strike for the last more than one month for the release of their long pending salaries, he said that the issue of their salary head under Health & Family Welfare had not been resolved despite continuous hard struggle and the State Govt had divested them of their due wages for more than 12 months. He urged upon the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to address the burning and most genuine issues of the employees.
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