Excelsior Correspondent
KULWANTA/ RAMNAGAR, Oct 11: A massive protest demonstration was held here by the PHE employees under the chairmanship of Som Nath, district INTUC president and senior vice president of PHE Employees Association Jammu province.
Employees drawn from all the remote areas of the district including Kaitha, Gandtop, Majori, Siameri, Basantgarh and other areas assembled at PHE Station Kulwanta and took out a rally upto Bus Stand in support of their demands.
While addressing Som Nath said it was painful that while the perks of MLAs were being hiked substantially, no wages have been provided to workers for the past one year, thereby making their life more miserable.
The speakers demanded release of wages to PHE workers which have not been disbursed for the past 12 months to save them from starvation. Other demands highlighted by the demonstrators included removal of shortage of staff to man the new water supply schemes for which crores of rupees are spent but no staff posted; Transfer of employees who have rendered three years services in other sub divisions in their respective sub divisions; Regularization of CP and ITI workers who have completed seven years of daily wage service under SRO 64; Change of designation as per nature of job; and Conduct of DPC meeting at divisional and provincial level; Conversion of Imprest and Estimate workers as daily wagers and release of 7 percent DA from July 2012.
Som Nath asked all Government employees to remain united for fulfillment of their various long pending demands and appealed the Government to avoid anti-employees policy as they were also human beings, otherwise they would be left with no other option than to come on the streets.
Others who spoke included Vijay Kumar, Suraj Parkash, Jagdish Magotra, Krishan Chand, Shiv Lal Sharma, Kartar Singh, Dinesh Kesar, Hans Raj, Veer Singh, Anant Ram, Kartar Chand, Suram Chand, Rattan Lal, Subash Chander etc.
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