STATE TIMES NEWS
KATRA: Public Health Engineering (PHE) daily wagers, who are on Kaam Chhoro Hartal for the last 32 days, from each and every nook and corner of the Jammu region on Saturday assembled at Katra under the banner of All J and K PHE ITI Trained and CP Workers Association, Jammu Province to press for their demands.
Addressing the protesting daily wagers, President Hotel and Restaurant Association, Katra and Congress leader, Rakesh Wazir said that time has come that government instead of adopting the delaying tactics, should consider immediately the genuine demands of all the PHE daily wagers including CP, ITI trained, land case, casual labourers etc. who are engaged from 1994 till date and should regularize them with release of their pending wages at the earliest.
Wazir said that it is ironic that daily wagers are working day and night on small emoluments and their families are struggling from pillar to post for just meeting their basic necessities and appealed to all the social and political organisations to come forward in their support.
He further said that government should come up with a concrete policy with regard to the regularisation of these PHE daily wagers.
Tanveer Hussain, President of the Association, while elaborating in detail the issues of PHE daily wagers of all kinds, said that government should consider their demands immediately and should not treat them differently from the rest of the regular employees.
He further said that if their demands are not considered before 21st April, Association will consider other options including Secretariat Gherao.
Later, protesters in the shape of procession after passing through Asia Chowk, Main Bus Stand, Main Bazaar reached at SDM office where they submitted a memorandum at SDM.
Among others who addressed the gathering include Anil Sharma President All J&K Serpanch Conference, Deepak Gupta Vice President, Jeevan Singh, Bhawani Partap Singh, Tilak Raj, Pawan Kumar, Radhe Kumar, Manmohan Singh and Sonu Kumar.
