Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Dec 2: Mr Som Nath, senior vice president of PHE Employees Association, Jammu province, while addressing an executive meeting of the Association for Udhampur and Reasi districts here, strongly criticized the Government and concerned Minister towards the department employees and workers, who have been compelled to launch agitation despite doing double shifts in a single day and at the same time not being paid their dues regularly.
Mr Som Nath said the Government at the outset should provide pending wages of nearly 28 months and frame a policy to regularize them. He said the provision for release of wages should be kept in the budget so that all pending wages could be released in one go. He also demanded to put a halt on discrimination with the workers and employees of Jammu province.
The demands voiced in the meeting included Release of wages; Implementation of Minimum Wages Act; Immediate regularization of workers; Putting an end to discrimination with workers of Jammu province; meeting shortage of staff to effectively man the on-going water supply schemes; Change of designation as per nature of job being performed by the workers; Payment to those engaged in lieu of land donation; and Enhancement in daily wage rate to Rs 150 to Rs 350.
They also demanded for putting an end to the discrimination being meted out to the employees of Jammu province paying them very less emoluments as compared to their counterparts in Kashmir valley.
The speakers also demanded immediate release of 6% DA installment with effect from July 1, 2015 for Government employees as already been release for Central Government employees. They also demanded sanctioning of all posts which were created in 2003 so that cases under SRO 43 may be considered against these posts and senior most CP workers could be regularized. Repair and maintenance of pump and duty rooms and issuance of charcoal and T&P was also demanded.
Others who spoke included Vijay Kumar, general secretary, Suraj Parkash, Makhan Chand, Baldev Raj, Chuni Lal, Ved Parkash, Krishan Chand, Kuldeep Kumar, Charan Dass, Luxman Singh, Rajinder Kumar, Jamait Ali, Rajinder Kumar, Shamsher Singh, Prem Nath, Dinesh Kesar, Prabhu Lal etc.
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