JAMMU: The Dharna of the Power Development Department (PDD) employees on Thursday entered the 186th consecutive day here today.
The agitation has been launched by All J and K PDD Daily Wagers Union Jammu province, under the leadership of Surjeet Khajuria, President of the Union.
These workers are sitting on protest Dharna at SC Circle -I , M and RE PDD complex near Panama Chowk, on Railway Road, Jammu. They are demanding regularisation of their services.
While addressing the agitating employees, Surjeet stated that the concerned authorities have given only fake assurances but not even a single daily wager has been regularised in Jammu District.
Even no DPC has been convened for the last four years, he added.
Chairman of the Union, Bharat Singh said that the government has totally failed to regularize daily wagers of district Jammu and Kathua under the SRO 381 of 1981.
The union members are determined to continue this Hartal till the final outcome of this strike and will not deter from their goal of getting regularisation in the department, he said.