Dear Editor,
One wonders as to why the authorities at the helm of affairs are coercing PM Package and Non-Package employees to resume their duties back in the Kashmir valley even after knowing the fact that the situation is neither conducive nor feasible for the working of all such employees. Package employees are living under threat perception since after the targeted Killings of Hindu minority employees in Kashmir and thus working conditions for them is not good at present as there is likelihood of threat to their lives. It is very sorry state of affairs that the authorities concerned are pressing hard upon PM package employees to resume their duties back in the valley that too when the situation is grim and volatile for minorities. However, it is indeed very disturbing phenomenon that even the salaries of some package employees have not been released by the concerned authorities. This further adds to their woes and miseries. The Government is treating PM Package employees as scapegoats and is experimenting with the lives of thousands of such employees by forcing and harassing them to rejoin their duties. The PM package employees are on protest from the last two months for the safety of their lives and thus rightly so are demanding their relocation/attachment in the Relief Commissioner’s Migrant Office Jammu. It is now the bound duty of the government to order temporary adjustment of all such package employees outside the Kashmir valley to avoid any catastrophe.
If the centre and J&K UT government is really interested in the welfare of the PM package employees then authorities concerned must be directed not to coerce Package employees to resume their duties till all Package employees be relocated outside Kashmir valley.
Vivek Koul
Gole Gujral, Jammu.
