Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Feb 9: National Conference (NC) MP, Justice (Retd.) Hasnain Masoodi called on Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman and demanded regularization and removal of pay anomalies of daily-wagers and contractual employees in J&K.
Bringing problems of daily rated, temporary, casual, contractual and other such workers serving in different government departments, local bodies etc in J&K to the notice of Union Finance Minister, Masoodi said that these employees have been in service for decades and served people with dedication and commitment and in most of the cases they are the sole breadwinners of their families.
Expressing satisfaction over the action following his repeated pleas on the issue, the NC MP said that it was satisfying that the issue raised by him during Zero Hour in parliament last year prompted the Union government to write to J&K administration seeking necessary information.
“Regularization of 61,000 daily rated workers and other such workers has been delayed for decades depriving them of number of benefits like pay scale, grade pay, HRA, education allowance etc available to their colleagues in a good pay scale performing similar and in some cases less onerous duties,” he maintained.
Masoodi asked the Union Finance Minister to provide sufficient funds to J&K for regularization of daily rated, temporary and other workers and to release minimum wages to all the workers pending their regularization and timely release of all arrears and current wages.
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