Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 23: Police today resorted to baton charge Contingent Paid Workers of Education department who were protesting for regularization of services and implementation of Minimum Wages Act.
The protestors assembled at the Pratap Park here to protests against the government for not accepting their demands. At least, two dozen protesters were bundled into police vans outside the Central market here after they tried to march on the busy Residency Road. Police equipped with riot gear, stopped the protestors, used pepper sprays and baton-charged the protesters to disperse them.
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Participants of the protest alleged police of using force against the protestors and demanded action against the policemen who baton-charged them. “They did not allow us to protest peacefully. One of my colleagues was hit on her face and has suffered injuries on her mouth,” a protester said, adding: “As many as three dozen protestors were injured and a few also fell unconscious.”
The protestors alleged that the CPW’s and cooks working in education department have been victimized by ‘indifferent political behavior’. “We have been working on meager wages for years. We have knocked the door of every bureaucrat and politician but to no avail”, they said, adding that the Court has directed the department to implement the Minimum Wages Act but the department has not paid any heed.
The protesters demanded that services of all the qualified CPWs engaged up to 2011 should be regularized and the Court orders regarding the implementation of Minimum Wages Act be implemented. The cooks should also be regularized and till regularization, the wages should be paid in accordance with the cooks that are working in KGBV schools, they added.
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