Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 31: Need based casual labourers of Power Development Department (PDD) under the banner of J&K Central Non-Gazetted Electrical Employees Union held a protest demonstration at Elect M&RE Division-III, Rehari, in which various need based casual labourers of Jammu division participated.
The speakers during the protest alleged that the administration is harassing the need based employees, who have utilized their golden years while serving in the department at their risk and cost and even without availability of any proper safety measures, only for the sake of this department and in the larger interest of the public.
PDD authorities have published the lists of all the need based employees after proper verification from their officials. But despite the clear verification of all such employees, no proper measures have been taken up for release of their wages and no wages have been released in their favour till date.
The union urged the Government authorities to clear its stand on the position regarding the exact status of the lists of need based employees within one week.
The union also demanded that all the concerned DDOs be directed to forward the lists of concerned need based employees to the higher authorities, clarify the status of Rs 6.5 crore which was released by the Government for disbursement of wages in favour of 1791 need based employees lying with the Planning Department and not to close the wages head of the daily wagers, who have been regularized by the PDD recently and transfer this amount to need based employees, so as to streamline the disbursement of wages.
The gathering during the protest demonstration was addressed by RA Khanyari, Parshotam Sharma, Mohammad Aslam Choudhary, Surjeet Khajuria, Sampooran Singh, Jia Lal, Rakesh Kumar, Farooq Ahmed, etc.
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