Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, May 14: Pending disbursement of monthly wages for last 10 months, a massive protest demonstration of casual labourers/need based workers of PWD (R&B) Department was held under the banner of PWD (R&B) Casual Labourers /Need Based Workers Union Rajouri today.
The workers have gone on 72-hour strike. They were raising their demands regarding implementation of SRO 520 of 2017, for regularization, release of pending wages on new rate as per SRO 460 issued under endorsement No: L&E/Lab/88/2000, dated 26-10-2017 through separate wages head created for the purpose. They have focused the attention of Jammu and Kashmir Government towards the burning demand of poor casual labourers/need based workers / ITI trained workers of PWD who have been working since 1994 and suffering badly due to delay in implementation of regularization policy.
While addressing the gathering of casual labourers/need based workers, the Union president Mohammed Riaz Mughal condemned the delaying policy of the J&K Government regarding the genuine issues of casual labourers/ need based/ITI trained workers, engaged in PWD(R&B) Department.
Others who addressed the gathering included, Murtaza Anjum Mir, Mohd Tariq Malik, Abdul Kaleem Bhatti, Riaz Ahmed Rathar, Akhilesh Mehta, Rajesh Kumar, Naheem Ahmed etc.
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