Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 11: The PDL/ TDL workers from various parts of the region working in various Corporations of unbundled Power Development Department continued to suspend work on the second consecutive day today and held protest dharna in the office complex of SE, PDD near Panama Chowk, Jammu.
The daily wage workers of PDD were shouting slogans in support of their demands and also against the higher authorities. With their strike, the public has been suffering badly.
Akhil Sharma president PDL/ TDL and Other Workers Union criticised the Jammu Power Distribution Corporation Ltd management for inviting bidders for providing manpower on contract basis despite nearly ten thousand PDL/TDL and other workers of PDD deputed to these corporations are yet to be regularised despite rules having been framed three years back for the regularisation of PDL/TDL and other workers of PDD.
He alleged that Government has not released the pending wages of several years of the PDL/TDL and other workers of PDD, and before clearing their liability, private contactors are being engaged to make the PDL/ TDL workers irrelevant in the field and sabotage their regularisation demand. The move is clearly a privatization attempt and can never be supported by any Union of PDD. This Union had two years back also thwarted such attempts to engage private contractors for providing manpower and scuttling the regularisation prospects of PDL/TDL and other workers.
Sharma said the PDL /TDL workers have stopped working after a notice period of 7 days. The workers have started indefinite peaceful protest and all responsibility of Power outage shall fall solely on the JPDCL management. He said the private contractor/workers shall not be allowed to work on any HT/LT feeder and Sub Transmission lines.
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