Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Apr 3: Water Works (PHE) Employees Association Udhampur held executive body meeting of both the districts of Udhampur and Reasi at PHE Complex here under the chairmanship of Som Nath, district president and senior vice president of the association for Jammu province.
The employees shouted slogans in favour of their long pending demands. They urged the Government for release of pending wages of workers before May 2017.
While addressing Som Nath appealed all associations of PHE Department to unite and be prepared for agitation as the State Government is not willing to fulfill genuine long pending demands of employees as well as workers of the department.
They also discussed various other long pending demands which included; Implementation of Minimum Wages Act; Immediate regularization of workers awaiting regularization for the past 15 to 22 years; 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; and Enhancement in daily wage rate to Rs 150 to Rs 400.
Others who spoke on the occasion were Vijay Sharma, RattanSingh, Suraj Parkash, Baldev Raj, Makhan Chand, Krishan Chand, Sanjay Sharma, Chuni Lal, Sham Lal, Charan Dass, Kuldeep Kumar, Prem Nath, Parth Singh, Shambu Dutt, Janait Ali, Luxman Dass etc.
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