STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: To pressurise the State Government for immediate settlement of their long pending demands, a large number of casual and need based workers of Power Development Department (PDD) on Saturday held a protest, here.
Under the banner of All Jammu Casual/Need Based Workers Union of Jammu Province, hundreds of casual/need based workers of different divisions assembled at Exhibition Ground here and raised anti-government slogans. They said that casual/need based workers engaged after 1994 are working without any regularisation policy and most of the highly educated casual workers have became overage and cannot apply anywhere for government service. They demanded completing of Aadhaar Based Biometric work on fast track mode. They appealed to the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to fulfill their genuine demands in coming budget. Meanwhile, their Kaam Chhoro Hartal entered into 139th day today under the supervision of Akhil Sharma (State President), Shesh Kumar (Jammu Province President), Sham Sharma (Vice President), Sanjeev (General Secretary) and Sawar Khan (Secretary).
Vishal, Ashish Verma, Ashwani Kumar, Naresh Sharma, Shamsher Singh and Simranjeet Singh were also present in the protest.
