Excelsior Correspondent
—Excelsior/Rakesh
JAMMU, Jan10: PHE workers held protest demonstration in support of their demands outside the office of Chief Engineer, on BC Road here today.
A large number of daily rated, consolidated, CP workers and other general line employees assembled under the banner of PHE Workers Welfare Association in the morning and started protest demonstration. Provincial president Bakshi Singh and general secretary Subash Verma were leading.
The workers were raising slogans in support of their demands. They alleged that Government was causing unnecessary delay in mitigating their demands like regularisation of ITI and other consolidated/ daily rated workers who have completed even more than five years in service, disbursement of wages to all the employees of the department before 5th of every month regularly, clearance of pending wages of workers, framing of new recruitment policy in the department and fixation of seniority of all cadre and conduct of DPC.
Bakshi Singh and Subash Verma while addressing workers alleged that many workers have not been regularized even after rendering more than 15 years of service. They are facing exploitation at the hands of senior officers. They said despite several representations to the minister concerned and the chief engineer, the main issues of the employees have remained unresolved. They are given only false assurances. They said the employees are being forced to resort to the agitational path. These leaders claimed that if the Government failed to resolve their issues by January 25, the workers would be forced to intensify agitation.
Senior members Rattan Doshi, Omkar Sharma, Tilak Raj, Khalil Mirza, Babu Singh and others also spoke on the occasion.
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