Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, June 2: 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, senior vice president of the association for Jammu province.
The employees strongly criticized the attitude of the State Government towards workers who have not been paid their wages for the past 40 months. Som Nath while addressing stated that the Government can compensate the families of the militants but the PHE workers were still waiting for their wagesfor more than three years. Association general secretary Vijay D Sharma said since biometrics of al the employeesd have not been completed the process time may be extended by atleast by one month so that biometric process could be completed. He also demanded to the Government to consider the genuine demands of the PHE mployees Association at the earliest. 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 23 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, Rattan Singh, Suraj Parkash, Dinesh Kesar, Baldev Raj, Makhan Chand, Jagdish Magotra, Krishan Chand, Santokh Chand, Charan Dass, Lakshman Singh, Karan Singh, Shambu Dutt, Vidya Ram, Mohinder Singh, Janait Ali etc.
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