Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Aug 2: Water Works (PHE) Employees Association of Udhampur and Reasi districts held a meeting at PHE Complex, here under the chairmanship of Som Nath, provincial vice president wherein strong resentment was expressed over non-payment of workers for the past 18 to 24 months.
While addressing Som Nath urged the Government for an early release of wages of workers and demanded that the matter be resolved on priority basis. He said it was strange that CP workers whose wages are pending for 18 to 24 months are being paid wages for 20 days only which was great injustice with them. Som Nath said Government had assured them for framing regularization policy but nothing has been done. He appealed the Government to frame policy for regularization of PHE/ITI and CP workers immediately.
Other demands projected in the meeting pertained to posting of adequate staff to man all the water supply schemes so that these could run smoothly; Change of designation of employees as per the nature of job being performed by them; Regularization of consolidate and community participation workers who have been serving the department for more than 15 years; Enhancement of daily wage rate to Rs 350; Release of 10 percent DA from January 2014; and Classification of workers by declaring them regular employee or permanent daily wager and that Government should employ permanent daily wagers against CP workers or imprest workers.
Others who spoke were Vijay Kumar Sharma (general secretary Udhampur), Rattan Singh, Baldev Raj (district president Reasi), Jagdish Magotra, Shiv Lal Sharma, Subash Chander, Suraj Parkash, Shiv Lal, Krishan Chand, Darbara Singh etc.
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