PDD employees protest against non drawal of salaries

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Aug 13: The employees of Power Development Department (PDD) Transmission Line Maintenance Division (TLMD) Udhampur today held a protest here at office of Chief Engineer System and Operation Wing Gladni Narwal Jammu with active support from all employee associations of the PDD.
Large gathering of employees from all cadres–Technical and Ministerial assembled here at Narwal Direction Office and expressed resentment over the lackluster approach of the PDD in addressing this serious issue of non drawal of salaries for all categories of employees of TLMD-Udhampur since last three months.
The employees appealed to the Government to take appropriate measures sensing the gravity of the situation as nearly 250 regular employees and many need based and daily wagers are also without salary from months together. The families of these employees have reached to the point of starvation as they are failing to make both ends meet and also attend to their duties.
The protesting employees also appealed to Governor and Advisor BB Vyas to kindly intervene in the matter and take appropriate measures, otherwise they along with their families will be forced to come on streets and also power supply will be disrupted in various districts if salary is not released in the ensuing week and responsibility of such outage will be solely lying on the Government August 28.
Later, the protesting employees also handed over memorandum to Divisional Commisioner Jammu.
Among others present were Er Harvinder Singh, President JKEEGA, Er Jaipal Sharma, DEA, Er Sachin Tickoo, Convenor Forum of Junior Engineers, Ajaz Kazmi, General Secretary PPEU, Sanjeev Bali, President PPEU, Jasbir Singh, President ITI Employees association, Tarun Gupta, Anil Slathia, Er Ankush Sharma, Er Vipul Sharma and Er Jaswinder.
Divisional commissioner gave spot directions and assured to take up the matter with Advisor BB Vyas and Advocate General for redressal.

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