Activists of National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) today celebrated May Day as Sankalp Diwas.
Addressing a well attended rally of NMC activists, President of the NMC, Subash Shastri emphasizing the need to adopt a comprehensive policy to regularize the services of 61000 daily rated workers working in the various departments of the State Govt. till May 2015 so that new regularization could become operational from June 1, as a Gift to the families of the working class, hoping that a decision in this regard would be taken in the first cabinet meeting in summer capital after Darbar move.
“The fate of these 61,000 daily rated workers has been hanging in uncertainty for the last six years and nothing was done to address their hardships adding that neither their monthly wages were paid timely nor separate heads were put in place in their respective departments for drawls of wages,” he said and added that these daily wagers could not get their wages for five to seven years.
Shastri appealed to the Chief Minister, Dy. Chief Minister and Finance Minister to sympathetically consider their genuine demand for regularization of services on priority basic.
While expressing grave concern over the non disbursement of long pending wages of daily rated working PWD, PHE, irrigation and Flood Control Department, floriculture and other departments of the state Govt., Shastri urged upon the State Chief Minister to ensure the release of all pending wages at the earliest so that working class could get sigh of relief.
Pleading the cause of clerical cadre of the State Govt. Shastri demanded that their pay anomalies should be removed as they have been agitating for their most genuine demands for the last many years.
Other demands raised by Shastri included re-organization of the floriculture department, enhancing medical allowance to rupee one thousand per month, raising minimum wages of daily wagers to rupee ten thousand per month, strictly implementing CP Fund deduction scheme in all state Govt. departments, release of 6 percent DA in favor of the employees of the State Govt. and pensioners, pensioners benefits to all PSU employees and workers, issuing regularization order of 180 daily wagers working in the RDD , release of salary of motivators working in the IWDP Phase ii beside their regularisation and declaring May day as national Holiday etc.
Among other who also spoke on the occasion were Rajan, Babu Khajuria, Ragupal, Surinder Kumar, Sham Lal Sharma, Sunil Kochhar, Darshan Bawa, Suraj Parkash, Sukhdev Singh, Com. Barkat Ram, Mohd. Shafi, Bopinder Singh, Sudesh Bhagat, Tarsem, Swarn Bhagat, Vijay Bhagat, Girdhari Bhagat and Dilip Bhagat.
Meanwhile, Dogra Labour Union (DLU) on the International Labour Day held protest against the State Government for not implementing the scheme for labour class of J and K.
Labourers hailing from different areas of the Jammu province assembled outside Press Club under the banner of Dogra Labour Union and raised slogans in favour of their demands.
Addressing the gathering, President of the Union, Kuldeep Raj Chalotra said that the union is working for the upliftment of the labour class in the State for the past so many years.
He added that the State has failed to implement the scheme for the labour class on the grass root level.
Chalotra further disclosed that hundreds kanals of Government land has been encroached by the land mafias but Government has failed to initiate strict action against them.
Kuldeep said that 1st May is a great day for labourers all over the world but unfortunately, after so many years of Independence the condition of the labourer is as it was as before the independence.
All the government departments in the State are giving step- motherly treatments to the labourers, he said adding that department like CAPD on one side said that there are more than 50% of the State population coming under BPL and other side it refused the labourers for issuing BPL cards to the deserving people.
Union had demanded a labourer colony for labourer class but government do not hear our genuine voice, he alleged.
Others who spoke on the occasion were Charanjit, Kuldeep Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Balbir Raj, Raj Kumar and Darshan Lal.
