Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 14: The PHE daily rated, ITI trained and CP workers’ strike continued on the 30th consecutive day today while agitating workers held protest demonstration near Press Club here.
A large number of PHE daily wagers assembled at Press Club in the morning and started protest demonstration, followed by day long dharna. They were shouting slogans against the PHE Minister, Chief Engineer PHE and the BJP-PDP Government. The water supply in many rural and as well as urban areas has been affected with the strike. Most of the water pumping stations, tube wells and supply points are being operated by the temporary staff.
These workers are sitting on protest dharna and have struck work for the last one month. The CP workers/ turn cocks, providing supplies to many urban and sub urban localities besides villages, have gone on `Kam Chhorh Hartal’. Not only in Jammu city and other major towns, the water supply position is not good in rural areas.
The workers bearing black badges held protest and then sat on day long dharna at Press Club. They are not being allowed to sit in the PHE complex by the Administration and higher authorities in PHE on the plea that Sections 144 has been imposed in that area by the District Magistrate, Jammu.
They have launched their strike under the banner of All J&K PHE Daily Wagers, ITI Trained & CP Workers Association. Tanveer Hussain, president and Deepak Gupta vice president of the Association alleged that despite three months time given by the Government and PHE Ministers Sham Choudhary, their issues remained unresolved. They said the general public is suffering due to negative attitude of the Govt.
They alleged that process of biometrics as claimed by the minister to be completed in three months has been set aside. No separate Wage Head for the PHE daily wagers/ ITI trained and CP workers was created and the pending wages of nearly 38 months of the workers have remained unpaid. They warned to suspend supplies at Katra Mata Vaishno Devi from Tuesday onwards as grand rally is being organised there on October 18.
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