Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, June 27: Water Works PHE employees held a meeting under the chairmanship of Som Nath at PHE complex Udhampur for highlighting the demands, like release of pending wages, DPC and regularization of the daily wagers.
Som Nath appealed the Lt Governor for early framing of SRO for regularization of the workers and personally intervene into the matter of the employees. He also urged the LG to take up the issue of workers with the Central government and get their pending wagers cleared.
While highlighting the issue of shortage of staff in PHE, the Association stressed that before fresh recruitment, the workers serving in the department for the last 20-25 years should be regularized.
The Association demanded formation of the norms and implementation of Minimum Wages Act, conducting regular DPC, change in designation of the employees as per nature of the work and biometric attendance of the imprest workers, who are serving the department for more than 15 years.
Som Nath urged the Lt Governor to consider these demands, particularly regularization of the workers so that the Association is not forced to adopt agitational path.
Others who spoke on the occasion, included vijay Sharma, Suraj Parkash, Dinesh Kesar, Amit Dubey, Rajinder Sharma, Ashok Kumar, Jabber Singh, Parveen Kumar and Mohan Lal.
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