Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, June 2: Water Works (PHE) Employees Association Udhampur held a meeting of executive bodies of both the districts of Udhampur and Reasi at PHE Complex here under the chairmanship of Som Nath, senior vice president of the Association for Jammu province.
While addressing the speakers expressed the view that in the State budget nothing has been kept for PHE daily wagers at a time when they are without wages for the past over 32 months while the Government is trying to eliminate the poor workers of the PHE Department.
Mr Som Nath in his address appealed all the associations of the PHE Department of Jammu province to form a United Front so that ‘Paani Bandh’ call could be given at provincial level for getting fulfilled the long pending genuine demands.
The other demands voiced in the meeting included Release of wages which are pending for the past over 32 months; Implementation of Minimum Wages Act; Immediate regularization of workers; Revision of sanctioned strength of the department, as there was no revision of sanctioned strength of field functionaries of the department for the past 40 years; 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; Release of 6% DA installment to employees and workers from July 2015; and Enhancement in daily wage rate to Rs 150 to Rs 400.
It was also demanded for putting an end to the discrimination being meted out to the employees of Jammu province by way of very less emoluments to them as compared to their counterparts in Kashmir valley.
Others who spoke on the occasion included Rattan Singh, Suraj Parkash, Baldev Raj, Jagdish Raj, Krishan Lal, Dinesh Kumar, Sanjay Sharma, Rajinder Kumar, Luxman Singh, Kuldeep Kumar, Raj Kumar, Ved Parkash, Chunni Lal, Shambu Dutt, Jnait Ali, Rakesh Kumar, Bharath Singh etc.
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