Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 3: Concerned over the simmering discontent amongst the Govt employees particularly Contractuals, DRWs, ReTs etc against the most despicable apathy shown by the erstwhile BJP-PDP Govt towards their legitimate concerns besides their harassment and intimidation during the said rule, NPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh today appealed to the Governor to address their legitimate concerns on priority.
Regretting the neglect of the issues of these agitating employees who were bullied, cane charged and made to languish on roads by the Coalition Govt, Singh said that having been ignored rather cheated by previous rule, they had pinned all hopes in Governor dispensation.
Addressing press conference Singh urged upon the Governor to address the genuine grievances of the protesting sections of contractual employees including Anganwari and ASHA workers, NHM, Contractual Lecturers, MG-NREGA employees besides DRWs and ReTs. He sought the early announcement of a job policy, their time bound regularization and regular payment of wages so that they were assured of sustainable livelihood.
Castigating the BJP-PDP rule, he said that whereas its Ministers and MLAs had voted themselves hefty hikes with respect to their salaries, TA, DAs, PAs, sitting allowances, car and housing advances, CDF and other perks and privileges including luxury cars, the lesser paid contractuals and daily rated workers were denied regularization and wage revision on the pretext of financial constraints. He regretted that not only were the contractual employees denied their legitimate right of regularization but the negligible honorarium fixed for them also remained unpaid for months and years forcing them to starvation. He said that while any respectable person could afford to remain hungry, his self respect could never allow him to see his family starving despite he having executed his part of the assigned duties.
Terming the apathetic nonchalant approach of the successive Govts as exploitative, Singh said that administration would have to evolve a suitable job policy commensurate with its often repeated slogans and thereby assuring them job security and sustainable livelihood as a welfare state.
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