STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Demanding regularisation of their services, hundreds of daily wage workers of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department today held a protest which entered 46th day today.
“Many of us have been working as daily wage workers for past more than a decade, but despite assurances by successive State Governments no step has been taken to regularise our services,” said the protestors.
They said the workers have been raising the demand for their regularisation for the past several months but the authorities did not pay heed.
They accused the BJP of not keeping their pre-poll promise to redress the grievances of the daily wage PHE workers.
President of the Association, Tanveer Hussain alleged that despite assurance given by Finance Minister and PHE Minister seven to eight months back that their demands will be solved within two or three months nothing has been done in this reghard till date.
The PHE workers have threatened to intensify their agitation if the government fails to regularise their services.
Others who participated in the protest were 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, Sanjay Kumar and Gopal Dass.
