Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 24: The employees of PHE Department today held a strong protest demonstration outside the office of Chief Engineer at BC Road here today.
Led by Shiv Kumar Sharma, president INTUC and provincial president of Water Works (PHE) Employees Association, the employees and workers of the department assembled at PHE Complex B C Road here and then started protest demonstration. They were raising slogans against the higher authorities in the PHE Department and the minister concerned for ignoring their issues.
The agitating employees and workers were demanding release of pending wages of the daily rated, casual, need based, ITI and CP workers; regularization of all type of temporary/ daily rated workers; restoration of work at defunct workshops; display of seniority list & holding of DPC of all cadre in the PHE; clearance of land cases; implementation of Minimum Wages Act; benefit of SRO 43, creation of separate sub division of water tankers, provision of mobile workshops, implementation of 7th Pay Commission in the State and creation of separate wage head for the temporary workers and ensure regular wages to them.
While addressing the workers Shiv Kumar expressed concern over the pendency of wages for scores of months and said that hapless workers and their families were facing starvation. He termed it as cruel joke with the poor employees, facing sheer exploitation at the hands of senior officers in the department. He said that this amounts to criminal act to deny wages to the workers. He demanded that justice should be done with the employees. The INTUC leader demanded that wages of the workers be released before Diwali.
Later, the Association led by Mr Sharma submitted a charter of demands before the Chief Engineer Sushil Aima in his office chamber.
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