PDD Daily Wagers’ protest dharna enters 30th day

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 28 : Daily Wagers of Power Development Department (PDD) continued their protest dharna outside the office of SE Circle I, Panama Chowk on the 30th consecutive day, today.
The workers led by Bharat Singh, chairman and Surjeet Khajuria, president, All J&K PDD Daily Wagers’ Union (Jammu province) had started their ‘Kam Chhor Hartal’ on November 28. Today was the 30th day of the strike and protest dharna.
The protesting workers were shouting slogans in support of their demand of regularization and enhancement of their wages besides clearance of all the pending wages. They were also demanding the release of their wages in time, conduct of DPC of all cadre. They further demanded that discrimination with the daily wagers from Jammu region be stopped and they should be treated at par with those from Kashmir region.
Meanwhile, SE Circle I, Ashwani Gupta, today called the representatives of the workers for conversation and assured them of holding DPC in 10 to 15 days. However, the union refused to suspend hartal/dharna and decided that till all the deserved daily wagers are regularized and their other demands are fulfilled, they will continue to do peaceful protest in front of the office of SE Circle I.

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