PHE workers take out protest rally

PHE daily wagers staging protest demonstration at Press Club in Jammu on Monday. -Excelsior/ Rakesh
PHE daily wagers staging protest demonstration at Press Club in Jammu on Monday. -Excelsior/ Rakesh

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 19: Daily rated, consolidated and ITI trained workers of PHE Department today held a strong protest rally at Press Club, near Dogra Chowk here today.
A large number of PHE workers, which are on strike since Sept 7, 2018, assembled at Exhibition Ground near Press Club here in the morning and started a strong protest demonstration. The workers from all the Divisions and PHE sub Divisions of Jammu district, besides Samba, Kathua, Udhampur etc. in large number, under the leadership of Tanveer Hussain participated in the protest rally in support of their long pending demands.
Besides Tanveer Hussain, several other trade unionists addressed the gathering and strongly criticized the higher authorities for not releasing their wages for the last about four years. They alleged that neither the Govt completed process of their regularization, nor it released wages of the workers despite assurances even on the floor of the Assembly House and outside by the previous Govt. They alleged that their families have been left for starvation. Even they are unable to pay the school fees of their children and feed them. The Governor’s Administration has also turned a deaf ear towards their plight.
Vice president, Deepak Gupta said that they had met the Governor S P Malik on November 14, 2018 and the Governor was kind enough to appreciate and realize the hardships and genuine concern of the PHE workers but no progress has been observed in the case even after one week.
Subhash Chander- general secretary and Manjit Singh pointed out that there are about 22,000 such workers who await Govt response. They again urged upon the Governor and the concerned Advisor, K K Sharma to address their long pending issue on humanitarian ground as early as possible.
Later, they tried to move towards Gumat Bazar and Secretariat but they were not allowed by the strong contingent of police force.

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