Excelsior Correspondent
MAJALTA, Aug 24: Panchas and Sarpanches of Khoon block today came in active support of MNREGA workers, who are observing sit-in protest in support of their demand to make them permanent besides formulating a recruitment policy for them as soon as possible.
Led by Nirmal Kesar, convener of All Jammu Kashmir Panchayat Conference, Sarpanch and Panch of Khoon Block visited the protesting workers and extended their active support to them on their demands. Nirmal Kesar said that MNREGA employees also work day and night to implement various schemes of the Rural Development Department at the grassroots level and the Government should take positive action on their future. “These people should be made permanent in the Rural Development Department,” he added.
Kesar also appealed to all the Sarpanches and Panches of Jammu and Kashmir to come forward in support of MNREGA personnel in their respective blocks.
Under the banner of All Jammu Kashmir MNREGA Employees Association, these technical assistants and village employment assistants under the MGNREGA in Block Khoon appealed the Government to make recruitment policy for them as well as to make them permanent.