JAMMU: In support of their demand of regularisation of their services, the daily rated, ITI trained and CP workers of PHE Department, who are on Kaam Choro Hartal for the last 21 days, on Sunday took out a massive protest rally, here.
Raising slogans in support of their demands, a large number of workers assembled at BC Road, PHE Office complex here and took a rally.
They urged the government to frame regularisation policy for all causal workers/ITI Trained/ CP Workers who have completed five years of service and release their pending wages.
While addressing, President of the Association, Tanveer Hussain said that despite working in the department for more than decades they are still awaiting regularisation. Many of them have been working for the last more than fifteen to twenty years but they are waiting for their regularization, he added.
“We have so far held protests but their demands have remained unfilled despite constitution of various committees and sub-committees in this regard by the authorities at the helm of affairs,” he said.
“We are working in this department for the last 25 years, continuously are still without regularization and no wages paid since, last three years back,” he said.
He said that the delaying attitude of the officers has made the life of the workers miserable. Many helpless workers are facing starvation as they have not been paid their wages since long.
“In case of continue silence by the government, we are compel to go on strike and no execution of work will take place henceforth we will not be held responsible for any lapse in this regard,” he said.
Protesters asked the Governor N.N vohra to take immediate steps in the direction of regularization policy and payment of wages of agitating workers.
Deepak Gupta, Subash Chander, Manjeet Singh, Jeevan Singh, Pawan Kumar, Subash Kumar Sharma, Tilak Raj, Arun Singh, Pardeep Kumar, Banu Partap, Toffan Singh, Nissar Ahmed, Altaf Hussan, Sat Paul, Romi Verma, Sahzab, Sakoor, Ashok Kumar, Maqbool Hussan, Farooq Ahmed, Raffo Ahmed, Soan Chowdary, Kuldeep, Bhushan, Dhani Ram , Shokat Chib Junid, Ahmed, Vickar Ahmed, Sushil Kumar and Sanjay Kumar were also present in the rally.