Water Testing Lab employees demand regularisation

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 22: A meeting of Water Testing Laboratories Employees Association of J&K was held here today under the chairmanship of Yashbir Singh.
Speakers in the meeting discussed the issues being faced by the staff working in different water testing laboratories of J&K.
They said that employees of water testing laboratories in J&K have not received their salaries for the last nine months.
The speakers urged upon the Lieutenant Governor (LG), Manoj Sinha to frame a regularisation policy for the regularisation of services of all the lab staff in Jal Shakti Department as soon as possible.
They also appealed to the LG to make State level water testing laboratory functional as soon as possible so that all the other labs can function under a single head called Chief Chemist as per uniform drinking water protocol 2020.
Ramesh Kumar, Ashish, Abdul Guffar, Rahul Verma, Amit Bandral, Anuti Mahajan and others also addressed in the meeting.