Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 7: The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (NPP) has accused the NC-led Coalition Government in the State of regional bias and for doling out the highly differential treatment to the casual and need based workers engaged in PHE Department in Jammu region.
While regretting the bias attitude of the Government, NPP chairman Harshdev Singh pointed out that PHE workers in Jammu region were getting just Rs 500 to Rs 1000 per month while their counterparts in Kashmir are being paid Rs 3750 per month. Even the Jammu workers were not getting mere Rs 500 regularly. Mr Singh said such discriminatory treatment doled out to the PHE workers of Jammu was not only violative of Minimum Wages Act but violation of human rights also. He demanded payment of minimum wages to the workers as per the Act or that being paid to PHE workers in Kashmir.
The NPP leader further castigated the PHE Department for the highly irrational and illogical transfer policy with particular reference to the postings of ministerial staff. He said that the Class-IV and other lower rung officials were transferred outside their respective tehsils. He called for review of the policy that was devoid of any logic and sought effecting of transfers of ministerial staff in a rational and logical manner. Mr Singh also expressed concern over the shortage of operational staff in majority of PHE, I&FC schemes. He pointed out that in Udhampur district alone, there were nearly 1074 vacant posts of operational staff in this department. He also demanded early payment of pending wages of CP workers in the district.
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