Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 22: The chain hunger strike, which was started by PHE employees on 4 of this month in support of their demands, enters 19th day today.
The employees of PHE Division City-II who were sitting on hunger strike today included Pankaj Sharma, Mushtaq Ahmed, Shamar Din, Omkar Singh, Chamail Singh, Kuldeep Kumar and Puran Chand.
Pertinent to mention here that all sort of daily rated workers of PHE including ITI Diploma holders are sitting on chain hunger strike since February 4 under the umbrella of PHE Workers Welfare Association.
They are demanding their regularization after completion of five years of service, clearance of 22 months backlog wages, disbursement of wages before 5th of every month regularly, framing of concrete recruitment policy for PHE Department, holding of DPC meeting for the promotion of employees and creation of higher scale posts of all cadres to remove the stagnation.
Addressing the protesting employees, provincial president of the Association, Bakshi Singh, asked them not to lose patience. He said that the chain hunger strike will continue till redressal of all pending demands of the employees.
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